webhook through 2.8.3 Memory Exhaustion via Oversized Request Body
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-770.
Summary
webhook through 2.8.3 reads the entire request body into memory before evaluating trigger rules, allowing unauthenticated attackers to exhaust memory by sending oversized bodies. Attackers can send multi-gigabyte request bodies with invalid signatures to trigger out-of-memory conditions and crash the service.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-91080
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-4wr8-3xfv-vhj5
- 2026-10-11 EPSS moved to the 50th–90th percentile
Sources
- CVE-2026-91080 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-91080 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-4wr8-3xfv-vhj5 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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