CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-13577
8.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-07-20
- Last modified
- 2026-10-24
- Assigner
- 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 8.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-338, CWE-340
Description
Dancer2 versions before 2.2.0 for Perl generate insecure session ids when required CSPRNG modules are unavailable.
Dancer2::Core::Role::SessionFactory::generate_id silently falls back to a built-in rand-derived session id unless both Math::Random::ISAAC::XS and Crypt::URandom are available.
The fallback session id is generated from a SHA-1 hash of a call to the built-in rand function, the absolute path of the Dancer2::Core::Role::SessionFactory module, an internal counter, the process id, the module instance memory address, and a shuffled string of characters (using the List::Util::shuffle function, which also uses the built-in rand function).
These are all low-entropy and easily guessed sources.
The built-in rand() function is seeded with 32-bits and considered unsuitable for security applications.
Predictable session ids could allow an attacker to gain access to systems.
Related
References
- https://github.com/PerlDancer/Dancer2/blob/v2.1.0/lib/Dancer2/Core/Role/SessionFactory.pm#L142 github.com
- https://github.com/PerlDancer/Dancer2/issues/1807 github.com
- https://github.com/PerlDancer/Dancer2/pull/1804 github.com
- https://metacpan.org/release/CROMEDOME/Dancer2-2.2.0/changes metacpan.org
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-5080 www.cve.org