CVE-2026-119036
Received
Received - Intake
Memory Exhaustion in Business::GoCardless Perl Module
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-119036, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-10-30
Last updated on: 2026-10-30
Assigner: CPANSec
Description
Description
Business::GoCardless versions before 1.01 for Perl allow memory exhaustion by flattening legacy webhook payloads before checking their signature.
A webhook body with a top-level "payload" key is verified as a legacy webhook. To rebuild the signed string, the payload is flattened into one key and value pair per leaf, each key carrying the full path to that leaf, and the pairs are then encoded, sorted and joined. A long key holding a long array costs memory proportional to the key length times the array length.
A remote attacker can exhaust memory in the process receiving webhooks with a single request that carries no valid signature.
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| gocardless | gocardless | to 1.01 (exc) |
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-770 | The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any intended restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated. |