FIPS Environment (RHEL/OCP) - Python3 pymongo with Amazon DocumentDB v5: "Unsupported mechanism" & "[digital envelope routines] unsupported"

Issue

Attempted MongoDB connection string: client = pymongo.MongoClient("mongodb://userName" + urllib.parse.quote("password") + "@clusterName.us-east-2.docdb.amazonaws.com:27017/?tls=true&authMechanism=SCRAM-SHA-256&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false")

• Returns this error: pymongo.errors.OperationFailure: Unsupported mechanism [ -301 ], full error: {'ok': 0, 'code': -301, 'supportedMechanisms': ['SCRAM-SHA-1', 'MONGODB-AWS'], 'errmsg': 'Unsupported mechanism [ -301 ]', 'operationTime': Timestamp(1735362859, 1)}

• Attempts to use SCRAM-SHA-1 as the authMechanism returns the error: _password_digest md5hash = hashlib.md5() _hashlib.UnsupportedDigestmodError: [digital envelope routines] unsupported

• Attempts to create a new MongoDB user using db.createUser({ user: "testuser", pwd: passwordPrompt(), mechanisms: ["SCRAM-SHA-256"], roles: [ { db: "admin", role: "readWriteAnyDatabase" } ]}); returns the error: MongoServerError: Mechanism SCRAM-SHA-256 not supported