CVE-2025-15604

Amon2 versions before 6.17 for Perl use an insecure randomstring implementation for security functions. In versions 6.06 through 6.16, the randomstring function will attempt to read bytes from the /dev/urandom device, but if that is unavailable then it generates bytes by concatenating a SHA-1 has...

CVE-2025-15604 Amon2 versions before 6.17 for Perl use an insecure random_string implementation for security functions

Amon2 versions before 6.17 for Perl use an insecure randomstring implementation for security functions. In versions 6.06 through 6.16, the randomstring function will attempt to read bytes from the /dev/urandom device, but if that is unavailable then it generates bytes by concatenating a SHA-1 has...

CVE-2025-15604

Summary (CVE-2025-15604) Amon2 for Perl with vulnerable random_string implementation affects versions before 6.17. In 6.06–6.16, random_string reads /dev/urandom if available; if not, it falls back to a SHA-1 hash seeded with rand(), the PID, and the high-resolution epoch time. The epoch time can...