CVE-2025-1805

Crypt::Salt for Perl uses insecure rand() function when generating salts for cryptographic purposes

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Apr 2, 2025
Updated: Apr 3, 2025
Reserved: Mar 1, 2025

Description

Crypt::Salt for Perl version 0.01 uses insecure rand() function when generating salts for cryptographic purposes.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

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

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Crypt::SaltHACHI	0.01Affected

References

https://metacpan.org/release/HACHI/Crypt-Salt-0.01/source/lib/Crypt/Salt.pm#L76
https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/rand
https://security.metacpan.org/docs/guides/random-data-for-security.html

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