cve-2024-58040
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-29 23:54
Modified
2025-09-30 13:37
Severity ?
Summary
Crypt::RandomEncryption for Perl uses insecure rand() function during encryption
Impacted products
QWERCrypt::RandomEncryption
Show details on NVD website


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