CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-40931
9.1 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-03-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 9.1 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-338, CWE-340
Description
Apache::Session::Generate::MD5 versions through 1.94 for Perl create insecure session id.
Apache::Session::Generate::MD5 generates session ids insecurely. The default session id generator returns a MD5 hash seeded with the built-in rand() function, the epoch time, and the PID. The PID will come from a small set of numbers, and the epoch time may be guessed, if it is not leaked from the HTTP Date header. The built-in rand function is unsuitable for cryptographic usage. Predicable session ids could allow an attacker to gain access to systems.
Note that the libapache-session-perl package in some Debian-based Linux distributions may be patched to use Crypt::URandom.
Affected configurations
• chorny apache\ \ (<= 1.94)
Related
References
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=930659 bugs.debian.org
- https://github.com/chorny/Apache-Session/issues/4 Issue Tracking
- https://gitlab.ow2.org/lemonldap-ng/lemonldap-ng/-/work_items/1633 gitlab.ow2.org
- https://metacpan.org/dist/Apache-Session/source/lib/Apache/Session/Generate/MD5.pm#L27 Product
- https://metacpan.org/pod/Apache::Session::Generate::Random metacpan.org
- https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=173631 Third Party Advisory
- https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libapache-session-perl/-/commit/bdabd71c2f91b18526e31a9dc52b4c17b3d246b7#898a4b8b00022df1b8689910b67707f3e738d180 salsa.debian.org
- https://security.metacpan.org/docs/guides/random-data-for-security.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/15/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/05/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory