🛡️ CVE-2025-1828 — crypt\

🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-331 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
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Description

Crypt::Random Perl package 1.05 through 1.55 may use rand() function, which is not cryptographically strong, for cryptographic functions.

If the Provider is not specified and /dev/urandom or an Entropy Gathering Daemon (egd) service is not available Crypt::Random will default to use the insecure Crypt::Random::rand provider.

In particular, Windows versions of perl will encounter this issue by default.

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. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-1828 is classified as CWE-331: Insufficient Entropy. A generator is seeded with too little randomness, narrowing the range of outputs an attacker must search.

Affected software

CVE-2025-1828 is recorded against 1 package.

  • crypt\ (from 1.05 up to 1.55)

Timeline and source

Published on 11 March 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
github.com
perldoc.perl.org

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-331
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-03-11
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
crypt\ 1.05 1.55

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