CVE-2025-40912: Mik Cryptx

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CryptX for Perl before version 0.065 contains a dependency that may be susceptible to malformed unicode. CryptX embeds the tomcrypt library. The versions of that library in CryptX before 0.065 may be susceptible to CVE-2019-17362.

Affected products

• Mik Cryptx: from 0.002, before 0.065 (fixed in 0.065)

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