Security Advisory

CVE-2024-57868

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-04-05 15:35:05

Last updated 2025-09-05 13:18:59

Assigner CPANSec

State PUBLISHED

Description

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.

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