CVE-2026-39821 (GCVE-0-2026-39821)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-05-22 15:01
Modified
2026-05-27 13:13
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VLAI Severity ?
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Summary
The ToASCII and ToUnicode functions incorrectly accept Punycode-encoded labels that decode to an ASCII-only label. For example, ToUnicode("xn--example-.com") incorrectly returns the name "example.com" rather than an error. This behavior can lead to privilege escalation in programs using the idna package. For example, a program which performs privilege checks on the ASCII hostname may reject "example.com" but permit "xn--example-.com". If that program subsequently converts the ASCII hostname to Unicode, it will inadvertently permits access to the Unicode name "example.com".
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| golang.org/x/net | golang.org/x/net/idna |
Version: 0 ≤ |
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