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CVE-2025-40925

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.1 Published: 2025-09-20 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

Starch versions 0.14 and earlier generate session ids insecurely. The default session id generator returns a SHA-1 hash seeded with a counter, the epoch time, the built-in rand function, the PID, and internal Perl reference addresses. 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