CPANSA-Crypt-Salt-2025-1805: Crypt-Salt vulnerability
| Publisher | giterlizzi | Document category | csaf_security_advisory |
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| Initial release date | 2025-04-02T00:00:00 | Engine | CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25 |
| Current release date | 2025-04-02T00:00:00 | Build Date | |
| Current version | 1 | Status | final |
| CVSS v3.1 Base Score | 5.3 | Severity | |
| Original language | Language | en | |
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Vulnerability Description
Crypt::Salt for Perl version 0.01 uses insecure rand() function when generating salts for cryptographic purposes.
Vulnerabilities
CVE-2025-1805
Vulnerability DescriptionCrypt::Salt for Perl version 0.01 uses insecure rand() function when generating salts for cryptographic purposes.
| Weakness | CWE-338 : Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) |
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Product status
Known affected
| Product | Score | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crypt-Salt less than or equal 0.01 |
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giterlizzi
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gdt@cpan.org
References
- CPANSA-Crypt-Salt-2025-1805 JSON self
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/giterlizzi/perl-CPANSA-CSAF/develop/csaf/white/2025/cpansa-crypt-salt-2025-1805.json - https://metacpan.org/release/HACHI/Crypt-Salt-0.01/source/lib/Crypt/Salt.pm#L76 external
https://metacpan.org/release/HACHI/Crypt-Salt-0.01/source/lib/Crypt/Salt.pm#L76 - https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/rand external
https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/rand - https://security.metacpan.org/docs/guides/random-data-for-security.html external
https://security.metacpan.org/docs/guides/random-data-for-security.html - CVE-2025-1805 (NVD) external
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1805
Revision history
| Version | Date of the revision | Summary of the revision |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wed Apr 2 00:00:00 2025 | First release |
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