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CVE-2025-40923

HIGH CVSS: 7.3 Published: 2025-07-16 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

Plack-Middleware-Session before version 0.35 for Perl generates session ids insecurely. The default session id generator returns a SHA-1 hash seeded with the built-in rand function, the epoch time, and the PID. The PID will come from a small set of numbers, and the epoch time may be guessed, if it is not leaked from the HTTP Date header. The built-in rand function is unsuitable for cryptographic usage. Predicable session ids could allow an attacker to gain access to systems.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-338, CWE-340

References