CVE-2026-19953 (GCVE-0-2026-19953)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-31 17:29 – Updated: 2026-08-31 20:07
VLAI
Title
URI versions before 5.36 for Perl encode non-NFC host names to non-standard punycode labels via missing normalization in nameprep
Summary
URI versions before 5.36 for Perl encode non-NFC host names to non-standard punycode labels via missing normalization in nameprep. nameprep 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. Any 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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • CWE-1289 - Improper Validation of Unsafe Equivalence in Input
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Affected: 0 , < 5.36 (custom)
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