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CVE record · CVE-2026-74846

Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication versions before 0.10029 for Perl allow timing attacks on stored passwords via eq comparisons in the legacy password verifier

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0027 · 19th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: CPANSec) at 3 Nov 2026, 07:51 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
Not given Not given Package name: Catalyst-Plugin-Authentication https://cpan.org/modules pkg:cpan/Catalyst-Plugin-Authentication
  • affected before 0.10029 custom
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-74846
CNA
CPANSec
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-208
Tags
Published
3 Nov 2026
Updated
3 Nov 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0027, the 19th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 3 Nov 2026, 07:51 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
  2. 3 Nov 2026, 08:02 UTC First seen by agentprime
  3. 3 Nov 2026, 08:17 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

References from the CNA

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