CPANSA-Maypole-2025-15578: Maypole vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2026-02-16T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.26
Current release date 2026-02-16T00:00:00 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

Maypole versions from 2.10 through 2.13 for Perl generates session ids insecurely. The session id is seeded with the system time (which is available from HTTP response headers), a call to the built-in rand() function, and the PID.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-15578

Vulnerability Description

Maypole versions from 2.10 through 2.13 for Perl generates session ids insecurely. The session id is seeded with the system time (which is available from HTTP response headers), a call to the built-in rand() function, and the PID.

Weakness CWE-338 : Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
Maypole greater than or equal 2.10
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

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References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Mon Feb 16 00:00:00 2026 First release

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