Public vulnerability disclosure

CVE-2026-119036

Business::GoCardless versions before 1.01 for Perl allow memory exhaustion by flattening legacy webhook payloads before checking their signature

publishedCWE-770

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.

Technical severity7.5 highCVSS 3.1 · ADP: CISA-ADP
Published2026-10-30Source updated 2026-11-06
Collected2026-11-062 attributed sources

Fixes and workarounds

Fix

Upgrade to Business-GoCardless 1.01 or later.

Source: CNA: CPANSec

Affected products and versions

Affected products, source version ranges and reporting authorities
ProductVersionsAuthority


Business-GoCardless
cpan
≥ 0; < 1.01 (affected, custom)
Other versions: unaffected
CNA: CPANSec

Version ranges are source assertions. Check the vendor advisory and your installed configuration before determining exposure.

CVSS assessments

CVSS scores, vectors and reporting authorities
Version / scoreVectorAuthority
3.1 / 7.5
high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HADP: CISA-ADP

Exploit evidence

No exploit evidence in collected sources. This is not proof of no exploitation.

References

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