CVE-2026-87081

HIGHPre-NVD 7.57.5—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-09-22. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 7.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: cisa-adp, epss, ghsa
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
7.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.6%CVSS: 7.5Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.

Net::IDN::UTS46 versions before 2.590 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via quadratic punycode encoding of an overlong label before the length check in to_ascii.

to_ascii punycode encodes each label and only then applies the 63-byte DNS limit. encode_punycode in both backends follows the sample implementation in RFC 3492, whose outer loop runs once per distinct non-ASCII code point and scans the whole input each round, so a label of distinct non-ASCII characters costs the square of its length before the limit rejects it. Every ASCII conversion in the distribution, including domain_to_ascii and email_to_ascii, goes through to_ascii.

CVSS v3
7.5
EG Score
7.5HIGHhigh confidence
EG Risk
49
EG Risk 49/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity75% × 45%
Exploitation1% × 40%
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.
EPSS PROB
0.6%
EPSS %ILE
48th
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

September 22, 2026

Last Modified

September 22, 2026

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-87081(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 23× in last 7d / 51× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-10-04 03:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-10-03 14:54 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-03 14:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-10-03 01:58 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-03 01:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-10-02 13:01 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-10-02 00:05 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-02 00:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-10-01 11:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-09-30 22:06 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-09-30 22:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-09-30 15:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-09-30 09:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-09-29 20:14 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-09-29 20:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-09-29 07:14 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-09-29 07:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-09-28 18:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-09-28 04:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-09-27 15:55 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-09-27 15:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
  24. 2026-09-27 02:59 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-09-27 02:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  1. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-09-26 14:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-09-26 00:52 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-09-26 00:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-09-25 11:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-09-24 22:59 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-09-24 22:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-09-24 14:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  9. 2026-09-24 10:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-09-23 21:06 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-09-23 21:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-09-23 08:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-09-22 19:13 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-09-22 19:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-09-22 18:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-09-22 17:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-09-22 16:22 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-09-22 16:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-09-22 16:01 UTCEPSS rescore
  21. 2026-09-22 15:30 UTCEG score recompute▲ 7.50
  22. 2026-09-22 15:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-09-22 15:29 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 7.5 · severity → HIGH
  24. 2026-09-22 08:33 UTCNVD update
  25. 2026-09-22 07:32 UTCEG score recompute
  26. 2026-09-22 07:30 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-87081?
CVE-2026-87081 is a high vulnerability published on September 22, 2026. Net::IDN::UTS46 versions before 2.590 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via quadratic punycode encoding of an overlong label before the length check in to_ascii. toascii punycode encodes each label and only then applies the 63-byte DNS limit. encodepunycode in both backends follows the sample…
When was CVE-2026-87081 disclosed?
CVE-2026-87081 was first published on September 22, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-87081 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-87081 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (48th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-87081?
CVE-2026-87081 has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (CISA-ADP / Vulnrichment enrichment; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-87081?
No fix for CVE-2026-87081 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-87081 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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