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ghsa-g3hm-j3wc-jcg9

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-03-28 03:30

Modified

2025-09-05 15:31

Severity ?

7.7 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Details

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.

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  "id": "GHSA-g3hm-j3wc-jcg9",
  "modified": "2025-09-05T15:31:06Z",
  "published": "2025-03-28T03:30:24Z",
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CVE-2025-1860 (GCVE-0-2025-1860)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-03-28 00:56

Modified

2025-09-05 13:20

Severity ?

7.7 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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.

References

URL

Tags

	https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/rand
	https://metacpan.org/release/ZEFRAM/Data-Entropy-0.007/source/lib/Data/Entropy.pm#L80

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	ZEFRAM	Data::Entropy	Version: 0 < 0.008

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