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

Assigner: CPANSec
Reserved: 08.09.2026 Published: 22.09.2026 Updated: 22.09.2026

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.

Product Status

Package Collection https://cpan.org/modules
Package Name Net-IDN-Encode
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 2.590 (excl.)

Solutions

Upgrade to Net-IDN-Encode 2.590-TRIAL or later.

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-1286 Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input CWE