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ghsa-w6w2-2wxg-ggwx

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-06-16 12:30

Modified

2025-06-16 15:32

Severity ?

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

Details

Mojolicious::Plugin::CaptchaPNG version 1.05 for Perl uses a weak random number source for generating the captcha.

That version uses the built-in rand() function for generating the captcha text as well as image noise, which is insecure.

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  "aliases": [
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  ],
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    "nvd_published_at": "2025-06-16T11:15:17Z",
    "severity": "CRITICAL"
  },
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  "id": "GHSA-w6w2-2wxg-ggwx",
  "modified": "2025-06-16T15:32:26Z",
  "published": "2025-06-16T12:30:26Z",
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    },
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    },
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://metacpan.org/release/GRYPHON/Mojolicious-Plugin-CaptchaPNG-1.04/diff/GRYPHON/Mojolicious-Plugin-CaptchaPNG-1.05/lib/Mojolicious/Plugin/CaptchaPNG.pm"
    },
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CVE-2025-40916 (GCVE-0-2025-40916)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-06-16 11:01

Modified

2025-06-16 13:31

Severity ?

9.1 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/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
CWE-804 - Guessable CAPTCHA

Summary

Mojolicious::Plugin::CaptchaPNG version 1.05 for Perl uses a weak random number source for generating the captcha. That version uses the built-in rand() function for generating the captcha text as well as image noise, which is insecure.

References

URL

Tags

	https://metacpan.org/release/GRYPHON/Mojolicious-Plugin-CaptchaPNG-1.04/diff/GRYPHON/Mojolicious-Plugin-CaptchaPNG-1.05/lib/Mojolicious/Plugin/CaptchaPNG.pm
	https://metacpan.org/release/GRYPHON/Mojolicious-Plugin-CaptchaPNG-1.06/changes
	https://metacpan.org/pod/perlfunc#rand
	https://security.metacpan.org/docs/guides/random-data-for-security.html

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	GRYPHON	Mojolicious::Plugin::CaptchaPNG	Version: 1.05 <

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