Riskcovery

CVE-2026-41564

CryptX versions before 0.088 for Perl do not reseed the Crypt::PK PRNG state after forking

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Apr 23, 2026
Updated
Apr 23, 2026
Reserved
Apr 21, 2026

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Description

CryptX versions before 0.088 for Perl do not reseed the Crypt::PK PRNG state after forking.

The Crypt::PK::RSA, Crypt::PK::DSA, Crypt::PK::DH, Crypt::PK::ECC, Crypt::PK::Ed25519 and Crypt::PK::X25519 modules seed a per-object PRNG state in their constructors and reuse it without fork detection. A Crypt::PK::* object created before `fork()` shares byte-identical PRNG state with every child process, and any randomized operation they perform can produce identical output, including key generation. Two ECDSA or DSA signatures from different processes are enough to recover the signing private key through nonce-reuse key recovery.

This affects preforking services such as the Starman web server, where a Crypt::PK::* object loaded at startup is inherited by every worker process.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-335 Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)
  • CWE-338 Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)

Affected Products

ProductVersions
CryptXMIK
  • before 0.088Affected

References

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