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ubuntu-cve-2025-1860

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2025-03-28 01:15

Modified

2026-05-20 15:15

Summary

Details

Data::Entropy for Perl 0.007 and earlier use the rand() function as the default source of entropy, which is not cryptographically secure, for cryptographic functions.

Severity

7.7 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-1860	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-1860	REPORT
	https://metacpan.org/release/ZEFRAM/Data-Entropy-…	REPORT
	https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/rand	REPORT

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CVE-2025-1860 (GCVE-0-2025-1860)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-28 00:56 – Updated: 2025-09-05 13:20

Title

Data::Entropy for Perl uses insecure rand() function for cryptographic functions

Summary

Data::Entropy for Perl 0.007 and earlier use the rand() function as the default source of entropy, which is not cryptographically secure, for cryptographic functions.

Severity

7.7 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-338 - Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)
CWE-331 - Insufficient Entropy

Assigner

CPANSec

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/rand
https://metacpan.org/release/ZEFRAM/Data-Entropy-…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
ZEFRAM	Data::Entropy	Affected: 0 , < 0.008 (custom)

Credits

Robert Rothenberg (RRWO)

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2025-1860 (GCVE-0-2025-1860)

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