CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-58036
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-04-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-331, CWE-338
Description
Net::Dropbox::API 1.9 and earlier for Perl uses the rand() function as the default source of entropy, which is not cryptographically secure, for cryptographic functions.
Specifically Net::Dropbox::API uses the Data::Random library which specifically states that it is "Useful mostly for test programs". Data::Random uses the rand() function.
Affected configurations
• norbu09 net\ \ (<= 1.9)
Related
References
- https://metacpan.org/release/BAREFOOT/Data-Random-0.13/source/lib/Data/Random.pm#L537 Product
- https://metacpan.org/release/NORBU/Net-Dropbox-API-1.9/source/lib/Net/Dropbox/API.pm#L11 Product
- https://metacpan.org/release/NORBU/Net-Dropbox-API-1.9/source/lib/Net/Dropbox/API.pm#L385 Product
- https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/rand Product
- https://security.metacpan.org/docs/guides/random-data-for-security.html Product