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CVE-2026-87082

Net-IDN-Encode · Vulnerability

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

cve-program · CVE-2026-87082

Published

Net::IDN::Punycode versions before 2.590 for Perl hang, crash or return a wrong label via unvalidated malformed UTF-8 in encode_punycode. Neither backend checks that its input is well-formed UTF-8, so a string with the UTF-8 flag set over malformed bytes, as the :utf8 PerlIO layer produces from any malformed input, reaches the encoder unchecked. On perl 5.32 and later the XS backend reports a malformed sequence with a length of `(STRLEN)-1`, so the scan steps back one byte instead of forward and never ends. On earlier perls the XS returns a valid label for a different name. The pure-Perl backend runs a regex over the flagged string. Depending on the bytes, it aborts with SIGBUS on perl 5.28 and later, dies with a panic, or returns a wrong label. The documented conversion functions match the label against Unicode properties first and that match dies on such a string, so only a direct call to encode_punycode reaches the defect. The decoder is not affected. A direct caller encoding attacker-supplied bytes hangs, crashes or gets a label for a name the input never held.

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Affected versions, risk and source history

cve-program · CVE-2026-87082

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

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