{"id":66450,"date":"2025-07-17T18:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-40924-catalystpluginsession-insecure-session-id-generation\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T18:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:02:07","slug":"cve-2025-40924-catalystpluginsession-insecure-session-id-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-40924-catalystpluginsession-insecure-session-id-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-40924 &#8211; Catalyst::Plugin::Session Insecure Session ID Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CVE ID : <\/strong>CVE-2025-40924<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Published : <\/strong> July 17, 2025, 2:15 p.m. | 25\u00a0minutes ago<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Description : <\/strong>Catalyst::Plugin::Session before version 0.44 for Perl generates session ids insecurely.<\/p>\n<p>The session id is generated from a (usually SHA-1) hash of a simple counter, the epoch time, the built-in rand function, the PID and the current Catalyst context. This information is of low entropy. The PID will come from a small set of numbers, and the epoch time may be guessed, if it is not leaked from the HTTP Date header. The built-in rand function is unsuitable for cryptographic usage.<\/p>\n<p>Predicable session ids could allow an attacker to gain access to systems.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Severity:<\/strong> 0.0 | NA<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVisit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-40924 Published : July 17, 2025, 2:15 p.m. | 25\u00a0minutes ago Description : Catalyst::Plugin::Session before version 0.44 for Perl generates session ids insecurely. The session id is generated from a (usually SHA-1) hash of a simple counter, the epoch time, the built-in rand function, the PID and the current Catalyst context. This &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}