CVE-2024-57868

Medium CVSS: 5.5

Web::API 2.8 and earlier for Perl uses the rand() function as the default source of entropy, which is not cryptographically secure, for cryptographic functions.

Specifically Web::API uses the Data::Random library which specifically states that it is "Useful mostly for test programs". Data::Random uses the rand() function.

Vendor

Lev

Product

Web\

CWE

CWE-331

Yayın Tarihi

2025-04-05 16:15:33

Güncelleme

2025-11-13 14:38:28

Source Identifier

9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e

KEV Date Added

Kategoriler

CWE-331 Web\+ MEDIUM Lev 2025

Referanslar

https://metacpan.org/dist/Web-API/source/lib/Web/API.pm#L20 https://metacpan.org/dist/Web-API/source/lib/Web/API.pm#L348 https://metacpan.org/release/BAREFOOT/Data-Random-0.13/source/lib/Data/Random.pm#L537 https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/rand https://security.metacpan.org/docs/guides/random-data-for-security.html