cve-2025-1860
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-28 00:56
Modified
2025-04-02 22:03
Severity ?
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.
References
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://metacpan.org/release/ZEFRAM/Data-Entropy-0.007/source/lib/Data/Entropy.pm#L80
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://perldoc.perl.org/functions/rand
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00026.html
Impacted products
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ZEFRAM Data::Entropy Version: 0   < 0.008
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