CPANSA-Crypt-Sodium-XS-2025-15444: Crypt-Sodium-XS vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2026-01-06T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.26
Current release date 2026-01-06T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score 9.8 Severity
Original language Language en
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Vulnerability Description

Crypt::Sodium::XS module versions prior to 0.000042, for Perl, include a vulnerable version of libsodium libsodium <= 1.0.20 or a version of libsodium released before December 30, 2025 contains a vulnerability documented as CVE-2025-69277  https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-69277 . The libsodium vulnerability states: In atypical use cases involving certain custom cryptography or untrusted data to crypto_core_ed25519_is_valid_point, mishandles checks for whether an elliptic curve point is valid because it sometimes allows points that aren't in the main cryptographic group. 0.000042 includes a version of libsodium updated to 1.0.20-stable, released January 3, 2026, which includes a fix for the vulnerability.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-15444

Vulnerability Description

Crypt::Sodium::XS module versions prior to 0.000042, for Perl, include a vulnerable version of libsodium

libsodium <= 1.0.20 or a version of libsodium released before December 30, 2025 contains a vulnerability documented as CVE-2025-69277  https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-69277 .

The libsodium vulnerability states:

In atypical use cases involving certain custom cryptography or untrusted data to crypto_core_ed25519_is_valid_point, mishandles checks for whether an elliptic curve point is valid because it sometimes allows points that aren't in the main cryptographic group.

0.000042 includes a version of libsodium updated to 1.0.20-stable, released January 3, 2026, which includes a fix for the vulnerability.

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
Crypt-Sodium-XS less than 0.000042
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 9.8 Critical
Fixed

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Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Tue Jan 6 00:00:00 2026 First release

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