CVE-2025-1828: Timlegge Crypt::random

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Timlegge Crypt::random: from 1.05, up to and including 1.55

Published 2025-03-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.