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CVE record · CVE-2025-40920

Catalyst::Authentication::Credential::HTTP versions 1.018 and earlier for Perl use insecurely generated nonces

CVSS 8.6 HighEPSS 0.0047 · 40th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: CPANSec) at 11 Aug 2025, 20:19 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
ETHER Catalyst::Authentication::Credential::HTTP Package name: Catalyst-Authentication-Credential-HTTP https://cpan.org/modules
  • affected 0.06 to 1.018, inclusive custom
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2025-40920
CNA
CPANSec
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-338 · CWE-340
Tags
Published
11 Aug 2025
Updated
17 Jan 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
8.6 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L ADP (CISA-ADP)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0047, the 40th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 11 Aug 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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