{ "document": { "aggregate_severity": { "text": "medium" }, "category": "csaf_security_advisory", "csaf_version": "2.0", "distribution": { "tlp": { "label": "WHITE", "url": "https://www.first.org/tlp/" } }, "lang": "en", "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "URI versions before 5.36 for Perl encode non-NFC host names to non-standard punycode labels via missing normalization in nameprep.\n\nnameprep lowercases each host label but performs no Unicode normalization. IDNA requires a label to be normalized to Form C before it is encoded (RFC 5891), so a label that is not already in NFC is encoded to a different A-label than its normalized form. A label built from the precomposed Devanagari sequence U+0958 U+093E encodes to xn--72b5c without normalization but to xn--11b2fg after NFC normalization, and xn--72b5c does not round-trip back to the original label.\n\nAny caller that reads host() from a URI built from untrusted input and uses it for a security decision (an allow or deny list, an SSRF filter, deduplication, a cache key) sees the non-standard label, while a client that fetches the same URL resolves the NFC form, so the check and the fetch can disagree about the host.", "title": "Vulnerability Description" } ], "publisher": { "category": "other", "contact_details": "gdt@cpan.org", "name": "giterlizzi", "namespace": "https://github.com/giterlizzi/" }, "references": [ { "category": "self", "summary": "CPANSA--2026-19953 JSON", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/giterlizzi/perl-CPANSA-CSAF/develop/csaf/white/2026/cpansa--2026-19953.json" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://github.com/libwww-perl/URI/commit/956619a9e94f86d8d2c529b4e06a3674c54a73e7.patch", "url": "https://github.com/libwww-perl/URI/commit/956619a9e94f86d8d2c529b4e06a3674c54a73e7.patch" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://github.com/libwww-perl/URI/pull/191", "url": "https://github.com/libwww-perl/URI/pull/191" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://metacpan.org/release/OALDERS/URI-5.36/changes", "url": "https://metacpan.org/release/OALDERS/URI-5.36/changes" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5891#section-5.2", "url": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5891#section-5.2" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/31/14", "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/31/14" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "CVE-2026-19953 (NVD)", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-19953" } ], "title": "URI vulnerability", "tracking": { "current_release_date": "2026-08-31T00:00:00", "generator": { "engine": { "name": "CSAF Perl Toolkit", "version": "0.26" } }, "id": "CPANSA--2026-19953", "initial_release_date": "2026-08-31T00:00:00", "revision_history": [ { "date": "2026-08-31T00:00:00", "number": "1", "summary": "First release" } ], "status": "final", "version": "1" } }, "product_tree": { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "vers:cpan/<5.36", "product": { "name": "URI less than 5.36", "product_id": "CSAFPID-0001", "product_identification_helper": { "purl": "pkg:cpan/URI" } } }, { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "vers:cpan/>=5.36", "product": { "name": "URI greater than or equal 5.36", "product_id": "CSAFPID-0002", "product_identification_helper": { "purl": "pkg:cpan/URI" } } } ], "category": "product_name", "name": "URI" } ] }, "vulnerabilities": [ { "cve": "CVE-2026-19953", "cwe": { "id": "CWE-1289", "name": "Improper Validation of Unsafe Equivalence in Input" }, "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "URI versions before 5.36 for Perl encode non-NFC host names to non-standard punycode labels via missing normalization in nameprep.\n\nnameprep lowercases each host label but performs no Unicode normalization. IDNA requires a label to be normalized to Form C before it is encoded (RFC 5891), so a label that is not already in NFC is encoded to a different A-label than its normalized form. A label built from the precomposed Devanagari sequence U+0958 U+093E encodes to xn--72b5c without normalization but to xn--11b2fg after NFC normalization, and xn--72b5c does not round-trip back to the original label.\n\nAny caller that reads host() from a URI built from untrusted input and uses it for a security decision (an allow or deny list, an SSRF filter, deduplication, a cache key) sees the non-standard label, while a client that fetches the same URL resolves the NFC form, so the check and the fetch can disagree about the host.", "title": "Vulnerability Description" } ], "product_status": { "fixed": [ "CSAFPID-0002" ], "known_affected": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] }, "scores": [ { "cvss_v3": { "baseScore": 6.5, "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N", "version": "3.1" }, "products": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] } ] } ] }