CVE-2026-119036
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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

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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Published
2026-10-30
Last Modified
2026-10-30
Generated
2026-10-30
AI Q&A
2026-10-30
EPSS Evaluated
N/A
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Vendor Product Version / Range
gocardless gocardless to 1.01 (exc)

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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.

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Executive Summary

This vulnerability is a memory exhaustion issue in Business::GoCardless versions before 1.01 for Perl. It occurs when legacy webhook payloads are flattened before signature verification. The attacker sends a crafted webhook with a long key holding a long array, causing memory usage to grow disproportionately to the request size.

Impact Analysis

An attacker can crash the server processing webhooks by sending a single malicious request. This leads to denial of service, disrupting services that rely on GoCardless webhooks for payment processing or other integrations.

Mitigation Strategies

Update Business::GoCardless to version 1.01 or later for Perl to address the memory exhaustion issue in legacy webhook payload handling.

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