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Medium ELSA-2026-84590 1 CVE

Moderate: perl-URI security update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Oct 19, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026

Summary

[1.73-4]
- CVE-2026-19953 perl-URI: URI (for Perl): Security bypass due to incorrect hostname encoding via missing Unicode normalization
incorrect hostname encoding via missing Unicode normalization

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 perl-URI 0:1.73-4.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 6.5

    URI versions before 5.36 for Perl encode non-NFC host names to non-standard punycode labels via missing normalization in nameprep

    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 befo…