CVE-2025-40914

Perl CryptX before version 0.087 contains a dependency that may be susceptible to an integer overflow

State: Published
Severity: 9.8 Critical
Published: Jun 11, 2025
Updated: Jun 11, 2025
Reserved: Apr 16, 2025

Description

Perl CryptX before version 0.087 contains a dependency that may be susceptible to an integer overflow.

CryptX embeds a version of the libtommath library that is susceptible to an integer overflow associated with CVE-2023-36328.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-1395 Dependency on Vulnerable Third-Party Component

Affected Products

Product	Versions
CryptXMIK	0.002 through 0.086Affected

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-36328
https://github.com/libtom/libtommath/pull/546
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j3xv-6967-cv88
https://metacpan.org/release/MIK/CryptX-0.086/source/src/ltm/bn_mp_grow.c

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