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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-87079"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-22T07:24:47.784Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-22T17:07:28.687Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-87079"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-87079.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-87079"
title: "Net::IDN::Punycode versions before 2.590 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via quadratic insertion cost when decoding a long label in decode_punycode"
summary: "Net::IDN::Punycode versions before 2.590 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via quadratic insertion cost when decoding a long label in decode_punycode.\n\nThe XS backend inserts each decoded code point into a UTF-8 buffer and finds the insertion point by scanning that buffer from the start, one character at a time. The scan runs once per code point over the output built so far, so the cost is quadratic in the label length. The pure-Perl backend downgrades its input to bytes so that substr can index it directly, but takes its working copy before the downgrade, so when the input carries the UTF-8 flag every substr on the copy scans from the start, with the same quadratic cost.\n\nNothing bounds the label length in the to-Unicode direction. The 63-byte DNS limit is checked only when converting to ASCII, so domain_to_unicode and uts46_to_unicode pass an attacker-supplied label of any length to the decoder."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"2.590"}],"packageName":"Net-IDN-Encode","collectionURL":"https://cpan.org/modules","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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