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CVE-2026-87080

Net-IDN-Encode · Vulnerability

cve-program · severity unknownCVSS unknownCheck source for fixed versionsKEV status unknown

Original advisory

cve-program · CVE-2026-87080

Published

Net::IDN::Punycode::PP versions before 2.590 for Perl decode a truncated label to a name containing a character it never encoded in decode_punycode. The pure-Perl decoder reads one digit at a time with four-argument substr and tests the result with defined to detect the end of the input. substr on an exhausted string returns the empty string rather than undef, so decoding continues past the end. The empty string converts to a digit value below the range, reducing the accumulator, and the decoder derives one extra code point and its position from it. The result is deterministic. The XS backend rejects the same label. Net::IDN::Punycode uses this backend wherever the XS does not build. The two backends disagree about what such a label means, so a sender can pick a label that one installation resolves to a name and another rejects.

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Affected versions, risk and source history

cve-program · CVE-2026-87080

Published

Net-IDN-Encode

https://cpan.org/modules

Publisher's version information

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{
                    "collectionURL": "https://cpan.org/modules",
                    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
                    "modules": [
                        "Net::IDN::Punycode::PP"
                    ],
                    "packageName": "Net-IDN-Encode",
                    "packageURL": "pkg:cpan/Net-IDN-Encode",
                    "programFiles": [
                        "lib/Net/IDN/Punycode/PP.pm"
                    ],
                    "programRoutines": [
                        {
                            "name": "Net::IDN::Punycode::PP::decode_punycode"
                        }
                    ],
                    "repo": "https://github.com/robrwo/Net-IDN-Encode",
                    "versions": [
                        {
                            "lessThan": "2.590",
                            "status": "affected",
                            "version": "0",
                            "versionType": "custom"
                        }
                    ]
                }

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