CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-8647

4.8 MEDIUM Published 2026-05-26 Modified 2026-07-23 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2026-05-26
Last modified
2026-07-23
Assigner
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
4.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-338

Description

Crypt::ScryptKDF versions through 0.010 for Perl uses insecure random number source when no CSPRNG module is available. The random_bytes function fell back to using the built-in rand() function when none of the Perl modules Crypt::PRNG, Crypt::OpenSSL::Random, Net::SSLeay, Crypt::Random, or Bytes::Random::Secure were available.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-338 Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) weakness

References