CVE-2025-40920 – Apache::Catalyst::Authentication::Credential::HTTP Weak Nonce Generation

CVE ID : CVE-2025-40920

Published : Aug. 11, 2025, 9:15 p.m. | 29 minutes ago

Description : Catalyst::Authentication::Credential::HTTP versions 1.018 and earlier for Perl generate nonces using the Perl Data::UUID library. * Data::UUID does not use a strong cryptographic source for generating UUIDs.
* Data::UUID returns v3 UUIDs, which are generated from known information and are unsuitable for security, as per RFC 9562.
* The nonces should be generated from a strong cryptographic source, as per RFC 7616.

Severity: 8.6 | HIGH

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