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GHSA-H9MR-RH28-V9R2

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-06-30 12:31 – Updated: 2026-06-30 15:30

Details

Net::BitTorrent versions through 2.0.1 for Perl allow remote memory exhaustion via an uncapped peer-wire message-length prefix.

The peer-wire framing in _process_messages trusts the 4-byte length prefix sent by a connected peer with no upper bound, while receive_data appends every inbound byte to the input buffer. A peer announces a length prefix of up to about 4 GiB and then streams bytes; the decoder waits until the buffer holds the full message before processing it, so the buffer grows without limit.

Peer connections are unauthenticated, so any peer in the swarm exhausts the downloading process's memory. The largest legitimate message is a 16 KiB piece block, so any announced length far above that is anomalous.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2026-57080 (GCVE-0-2026-57080)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-30 11:04 – Updated: 2026-06-30 13:48

Title

Net::BitTorrent versions through 2.0.1 for Perl allow remote memory exhaustion via an uncapped peer-wire message-length prefix

Summary

Net::BitTorrent versions through 2.0.1 for Perl allow remote memory exhaustion via an uncapped peer-wire message-length prefix. The peer-wire framing in _process_messages trusts the 4-byte length prefix sent by a connected peer with no upper bound, while receive_data appends every inbound byte to the input buffer. A peer announces a length prefix of up to about 4 GiB and then streams bytes; the decoder waits until the buffer holds the full message before processing it, so the buffer grows without limit. Peer connections are unauthenticated, so any peer in the swarm exhausts the downloading process's memory. The largest legitimate message is a 16 KiB piece block, so any announced length far above that is anomalous.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Assigner

CPANSec

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://github.com/sanko/Net-BitTorrent.pm/securi…	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
SANKO	Net::BitTorrent	Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.0.1 (custom)

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GHSA-H9MR-RH28-V9R2

CVE-2026-57080 (GCVE-0-2026-57080)

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