cve-2025-1828
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-10 23:51
Modified
2025-04-08 20:35
Summary
Perl's Crypt::Random module after 1.05 and before 1.56 may use rand() function for cryptographic functions
Impacted products
perlCrypt::Random
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