CVE-2026-19954: Net::Whois::Raw versions before 2.99044 for Perl ship a pwhois command-line tool that queries WHOIS for the wrong domain for

CVE-2026-19954: Net::Whois::Raw versions before 2.99044 for Perl ship a pwhois command-line tool that queries WHOIS for the wrong domain for unicode domain names

Reported by oss-security

Summary by Cyber Security News5 Oct 2026, 19:08 CET

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Posted by Robert Rothenberg on Oct 05 CVE-2026-19954 CPAN Security Group CVE ID: CVE-2026-19954 Distribution: Net-Whois-Raw Versions: before 2.99044 MetaCPAN: https://metacpan.org/dist/Net-Whois-Raw VCS Repo: ...

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