{"id":78514,"date":"2026-05-15T15:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-8503-apachesessiongeneratesha256-versions-before-1-3-19-for-perl-create-insecure-session-ids\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T15:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:17:09","slug":"cve-2026-8503-apachesessiongeneratesha256-versions-before-1-3-19-for-perl-create-insecure-session-ids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-8503-apachesessiongeneratesha256-versions-before-1-3-19-for-perl-create-insecure-session-ids\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-8503 &#8211; Apache::Session::Generate::SHA256 versions before 1.3.19 for Perl create insecure session ids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-8503<\/p>\n<p>  Published : May 15, 2026, 12:17 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 41\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :Apache::Session::Generate::SHA256 versions before 1.3.19 for Perl create insecure session ids.<\/p>\n<p>Apache::Session::Generate::SHA256 generated session ids insecurely. The default session id generator returns a SHA-256 hash of the built-in rand() function, the epoch time, and the PID, that is hashed again. These are predictable, low-entropy sources. Predicable session ids could allow an attacker to gain access to systems.<\/p>\n<p>Note that version 1.3.19 has a fallback without warning to use insecure session generation method if the call to Crypt::URandom::urandom fails. However, this is unlikely as Crypt::URandom is a hardcoded requirement of the module.<\/p>\n<p>This issue is similar to CVE-2025-40931 for Apache::Session::Generate::MD5.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 0.0 | NA<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-8503 Published : May 15, 2026, 12:17 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 41\u00a0minutes ago Description :Apache::Session::Generate::SHA256 versions before 1.3.19 for Perl create insecure session ids. Apache::Session::Generate::SHA256 generated session ids insecurely. The default session id generator returns a SHA-256 hash of the built-in rand() function, the epoch time, and the PID, that is hashed again. These &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-78514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78514","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=78514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}