High
Security advisory
The Crypt::Random::Source package before 0.13 for Perl has a fallback to the built-in rand() function, which is not a secure source of random bits.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-25107
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:30 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The Crypt::Random::Source package before 0.13 for Perl has a fallback to the built-in rand() function, which is not a secure source of random bits.
osv:CVE-2018-25107
Complete source record
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