Vulnerabilites related to ZEFRAM - Data::Entropy
CVE-2025-1860 (GCVE-0-2025-1860)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-28 00:56
Modified
2025-09-05 13:20
CWE
  • CWE-338 - Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)
  • CWE-331 - Insufficient Entropy
Summary
Data::Entropy for Perl 0.007 and earlier use the rand() function as the default source of entropy, which is not cryptographically secure, for cryptographic functions.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
ZEFRAM Data::Entropy Version: 0   < 0.008
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