CVE-2024-12224 (GCVE-0-2024-12224)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-30 01:16 – Updated: 2025-05-30 12:46
VLAI
Title
idna accepts Punycode labels that do not produce any non-ASCII when decoded
Summary
Improper Validation of Unsafe Equivalence in punycode by the idna crate from Servo rust-url allows an attacker to create a punycode hostname that one part of a system might treat as distinct while another part of that system would treat as equivalent to another hostname.
Severity
5.1 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:L/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
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CWE
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
servo rust-url Affected: 0 , < 1.0.0 (rust)
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Date Public
2024-12-09 08:00
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