GO-2025-4010 Insufficient validation of bracketed IPv6 hostnames in net/url

The Parse function permits values other than IPv6 addresses to be included in square brackets within the host component of a URL. RFC 3986 permits IPv6 addresses to be included within the host component, enclosed within square brackets. For example: "http://::1/". IPv4 addresses and hostnames mus...

Important: golang

Issue Overview: net/url: insufficient validation of bracketed IPv6 hostnames The Parse function permitted values other than IPv6 addresses to be included in square brackets within the host component of a URL. RFC 3986 permits IPv6 addresses to be included within the host component, enclosed withi...

Medium: python3.9

Issue Overview: The Python standard library functions urllib.parse.urlsplit and urlparse accepted domain names that included square brackets which isn't valid according to RFC 3986. Square brackets are only meant to be used as delimiters for specifying IPv6 and IPvFuture hosts in URLs. This could...