CVE-2025-40926: KAZEBURO Plack::Middleware::Session::Simple

Plack::Middleware::Session::Simple versions before 0.05 for Perl generates session ids insecurely

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.0050 · 43rd percentile

Critical, because:

CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: CPANSec) at 5 Mar 2026, 01:24 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
Vendor	Product	Versions
KAZEBURO	Plack::Middleware::Session::Simple Package name: Plack-Middleware-Session-Simple https://cpan.org/modules	affected before 0.05 custom Other versions: unaffected

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
9.8	Critical	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	ADP (CISA-ADP)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0050, the 43rd 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 5 Mar 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

metacpan.org/release/KAZEBURO/Plack-Middleware-Session-Simple-0.04/source/lib/Plack/Middleware/Session/Simple.pm#L43
github.com/kazeburo/Plack-Middleware-Session-Simple/pull/4 issue-tracking
github.com/kazeburo/Plack-Middleware-Session-Simple/commit/760bb358b8f53e52cf415888a4ac858fd99bb24e.patch patch
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40923 vendor-advisoryrelatedvdb-entry
security.metacpan.org/docs/guides/random-data-for-security.html technical-description
metacpan.org/release/KAZEBURO/Plack-Middleware-Session-Simple-0.05/changes release-notes

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