HACHI Crypt::Salt 0.01 on Perl rand weak prng

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A vulnerability was found in HACHI Crypt::Salt 0.01 on Perl. It has been declared as problematic. This affects the function rand. Such manipulation leads to weak prng. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2025-1805. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in HACHI Crypt::Salt 0.01 on Perl and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function rand. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a weak prng vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-338. The product uses a Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) in a security context, but the PRNG's algorithm is not cryptographically strong. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Crypt::Salt for Perl version 0.01 uses insecure rand() function when generating salts for cryptographic purposes.

The weakness was presented by Robert Rothenberg. The advisory is shared for download at metacpan.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-1805 since 03/01/2025. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1600.001.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• HACHI

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• Crypt::Salt

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• 0.01

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