CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-1828

8.8 HIGH Published 2025-03-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗

Status: Analyzed
Published: 2025-03-11
Last modified: 2026-06-17
Assigner: 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0): 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses: CWE-331, CWE-338

Description

Crypt::Random Perl package 1.05 through 1.55 may use rand() function, which is not cryptographically strong, for cryptographic functions. If the Provider is not specified and /dev/urandom or an Entropy Gathering Daemon (egd) service is not available Crypt::Random will default to use the insecure Crypt::Random::rand provider. In particular, Windows versions of perl will encounter this issue by default.

Affected configurations

• timlegge crypt\ \ (>= 1.05 <= 1.55)

Weakness · CWE (2)

CWE-331 Insufficient Entropy weakness
CWE-338 Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) weakness

References

https://github.com/perl-Crypt-OpenPGP/Crypt-Random/commit/1f8b29e9e89d8d083fd025152e76ec918136cc05 Patch
https://github.com/perl-Crypt-OpenPGP/Crypt-Random/pull/1 Issue Tracking, Patch
https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/rand Patch

CVE-2025-1828

Description

Affected configurations

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

References