{"id":82277,"date":"2026-07-20T10:46:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T07:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-6656-cryptpassword-versions-through-0-28-for-perl-are-susceptible-to-timing-attacks\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T10:46:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T07:16:42","slug":"cve-2026-6656-cryptpassword-versions-through-0-28-for-perl-are-susceptible-to-timing-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-6656-cryptpassword-versions-through-0-28-for-perl-are-susceptible-to-timing-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-6656 &#8211; Crypt::Password versions through 0.28 for Perl are susceptible to timing attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-6656<\/p>\n<p>  Published : July 20, 2026, 7:16 a.m. | 26\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :Crypt::Password versions through 0.28 for Perl are susceptible to timing attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The check_password method uses the built-in eq operator. This allows discrepancies in timing to be used to guess the underlying hash.<\/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-2026-6656 Published : July 20, 2026, 7:16 a.m. | 26\u00a0minutes ago Description :Crypt::Password versions through 0.28 for Perl are susceptible to timing attacks. The check_password method uses the built-in eq operator. This allows discrepancies in timing to be used to guess the underlying hash. Severity: 0.0 | NA Visit the link for more &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-82277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82277","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=82277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}