{"id":"CVE-2025-1828","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-1828","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:12:23.977Z","title":"If the Provider is not specified and /dev/urandom or an Entropy Gathering Daemon (egd) service is not available Crypt::Random will default to use the insecure Crypt::Random::rand provider.","description":"Crypt::Random Perl package 1.05 through 1.55 may use rand() function, which is not cryptographically strong, for cryptographic functions.\n\nIf the Provider is not specified and /dev/urandom or an Entropy Gathering Daemon (egd) service is not available Crypt::Random will default to use the insecure Crypt::Random::rand provider.\n\nIn particular, Windows versions of perl will encounter this issue by default.","published":"2025-03-11T00:15:11.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T08:39:51.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-331","CWE-338"],"affected":["timlegge/crypt\\"],"epss":{"score":0.00407,"percentile":0.34799,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.41%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/perl-Crypt-OpenPGP/Crypt-Random/commit/1f8b29e9e89d8d083fd025152e76ec918136cc05","tags":["Patch"],"source":"9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e"},{"url":"https://github.com/perl-Crypt-OpenPGP/Crypt-Random/pull/1","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch"],"source":"9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e"},{"url":"https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/rand","tags":["Patch"],"source":"9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1828","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}