vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2025-40923: libplack-middleware-session-perl -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 16, 2025
Added
Jul 18, 2025
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

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.

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
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