{ "document": { "aggregate_severity": { "text": "high" }, "category": "csaf_security_advisory", "csaf_version": "2.0", "distribution": { "tlp": { "label": "WHITE", "url": "https://www.first.org/tlp/" } }, "lang": "en", "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "Net::IDN::UTS46 versions before 2.590 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via quadratic punycode encoding of an overlong label before the length check in to_ascii.\n\nto_ascii punycode encodes each label and only then applies the 63-byte DNS limit. encode_punycode in both backends follows the sample implementation in RFC 3492, whose outer loop runs once per distinct non-ASCII code point and scans the whole input each round, so a label of distinct non-ASCII characters costs the square of its length before the limit rejects it. Every ASCII conversion in the distribution, including domain_to_ascii and email_to_ascii, goes through to_ascii.", "title": "Vulnerability Description" } ], "publisher": { "category": "other", "contact_details": "gdt@cpan.org", "name": "giterlizzi", "namespace": "https://github.com/giterlizzi/" }, "references": [ { "category": "self", "summary": "CPANSA-Net-IDN-Encode-2026-87081 JSON", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/giterlizzi/perl-CPANSA-CSAF/develop/csaf/white/2026/cpansa-net-idn-encode-2026-87081.json" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://github.com/robrwo/Net-IDN-Encode/commit/5ac3315131264670efcd3a29857b651506dfee8e.patch", "url": "https://github.com/robrwo/Net-IDN-Encode/commit/5ac3315131264670efcd3a29857b651506dfee8e.patch" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://github.com/robrwo/Net-IDN-Encode/commit/ea34f812d7dc67f3b211f4d92e74c6a7e24d764a.patch", "url": "https://github.com/robrwo/Net-IDN-Encode/commit/ea34f812d7dc67f3b211f4d92e74c6a7e24d764a.patch" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://metacpan.org/release/PJCJ/Net-IDN-Encode-2.590-TRIAL/changes", "url": "https://metacpan.org/release/PJCJ/Net-IDN-Encode-2.590-TRIAL/changes" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/09/22/16", "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/09/22/16" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "CVE-2026-87081 (NVD)", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-87081" } ], "title": "Net-IDN-Encode vulnerability", "tracking": { "current_release_date": "2026-09-22T00:00:00", "generator": { "engine": { "name": "CSAF Perl Toolkit", "version": "0.26" } }, "id": "CPANSA-Net-IDN-Encode-2026-87081", "initial_release_date": "2026-09-22T00:00:00", "revision_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-22T00:00:00", "number": "1", "summary": "First release" } ], "status": "final", "version": "1" } }, "product_tree": { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "vers:cpan/<2.590", "product": { "name": "Net-IDN-Encode less than 2.590", "product_id": "CSAFPID-0001", "product_identification_helper": { "purl": "pkg:cpan/Net-IDN-Encode" } } }, { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "vers:cpan/>=2.590", "product": { "name": "Net-IDN-Encode greater than or equal 2.590", "product_id": "CSAFPID-0002", "product_identification_helper": { "purl": "pkg:cpan/Net-IDN-Encode" } } } ], "category": "product_name", "name": "Net-IDN-Encode" } ] }, "vulnerabilities": [ { "cve": "CVE-2026-87081", "cwe": { "id": "CWE-407", "name": "Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity" }, "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "Net::IDN::UTS46 versions before 2.590 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via quadratic punycode encoding of an overlong label before the length check in to_ascii.\n\nto_ascii punycode encodes each label and only then applies the 63-byte DNS limit. encode_punycode in both backends follows the sample implementation in RFC 3492, whose outer loop runs once per distinct non-ASCII code point and scans the whole input each round, so a label of distinct non-ASCII characters costs the square of its length before the limit rejects it. Every ASCII conversion in the distribution, including domain_to_ascii and email_to_ascii, goes through to_ascii.", "title": "Vulnerability Description" } ], "product_status": { "fixed": [ "CSAFPID-0002" ], "known_affected": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] }, "scores": [ { "cvss_v3": { "baseScore": 7.5, "baseSeverity": "HIGH", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H", "version": "3.1" }, "products": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] } ] } ] }