CVE-2026-87081 PUBLISHED

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

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

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.

to_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.

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-407 Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity CWE