CVE-2025-15578 Maypole versions from 2.10 through 2.13 for Perl generates session ids insecurely

Maypole versions from 2.10 through 2.13 for Perl generates session ids insecurely. The session id is seeded with the system time which is available from HTTP response headers, a call to the built-in rand function, and the PID...

CVE-2025-15578 Maypole versions from 2.10 through 2.13 for Perl generates session ids insecurely

Maypole versions from 2.10 through 2.13 for Perl generates session ids insecurely. The session id is seeded with the system time which is available from HTTP response headers, a call to the built-in rand function, and the PID...

CVE-2025-15578

The Maypole Perl library, specifically versions 2.10 through 2.13 , contains a vulnerability where session IDs are generated insecurely. The root cause is the use of a cryptographically weak pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) to seed session IDs using system time (accessible via HTTP response ...