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CVE-2019-12290

7.5 high Modified

GNU libidn2 before 2.2.0 fails to perform the roundtrip checks specified in RFC3490 Section 4.2 when converting A-labels to U-labels. This makes it possible in some circumstances for one domain to impersonate another. By creating a malicious domain that matches a target domain except for the inclusion of certain punycoded Unicode characters (that would be discarded when converted first to a Unicode label and then back to an ASCII label), arbitrary domains can be impersonated.

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Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 4

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Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 7.5 · gnuNVD modified 2026-10-14 07:16

Affected (CPE criteria) 1

  • cpe:2.3:a:gnu:libidn2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 25