It was discovered that the Go x/net/idna package incorrectly handled certain Punycode-encoded labels that decoded to ASCII-only labels. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass hostname-based access controls and escalate privileges.
USN-8883-1: Go vulnerability
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