🛡️ CVE-2025-15578 — maypole

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-338 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
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Description

Maypole versions from 2.10 through 2.13 for Perl generates session ids insecurely. The session id is seeded with the system time (which is available from HTTP response headers), a call to the built-in rand() function, and the PID.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-15578 is classified as CWE-338: Use of Cryptographically Weak PRNG. A general-purpose random number generator is used where a cryptographic one is required.

Affected software

CVE-2025-15578 is recorded against 1 package.

  • maypole

Timeline and source

Published on 16 February 2026 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

metacpan.org

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-338
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-02-16
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
maypole — —

Exploit Protection

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