CVE-2025-1860 – Data::Entropy Perl Cryptographically Insecure Random Number Generation

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2025-1860 vulnerability over time.

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impact the vulnerability’s severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • New CVE Received
    by 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e

    Mar. 28, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description 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.
    Added CWE CWE-338
    Added Reference https://metacpan.org/release/ZEFRAM/Data-Entropy-0.007/source/lib/Data/Entropy.pm#L80
    Added Reference https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/rand
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