{"id":82852,"date":"2026-08-01T14:46:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T11:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-18536-dataentropy-versions-before-0-010-for-perl-read-remote-entropy-sources-over-plain-http\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T14:46:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T11:16:38","slug":"cve-2026-18536-dataentropy-versions-before-0-010-for-perl-read-remote-entropy-sources-over-plain-http","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-18536-dataentropy-versions-before-0-010-for-perl-read-remote-entropy-sources-over-plain-http\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-18536 &#8211; Data::Entropy versions before 0.010 for Perl read remote entropy sources over plain HTTP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-18536<\/p>\n<p>  Published : Aug. 1, 2026, 11:16 a.m. | 33\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :Data::Entropy versions before 0.010 for Perl read remote entropy sources over plain HTTP.<\/p>\n<p>The Data::Entropy::RawSource::RandomOrg and Data::Entropy::RawSource::RandomnumbersInfo remote sources are accessed over plain HTTP.<\/p>\n<p>The Data::Entropy::RawSource::RandomOrg integrity check trivially matches any non-empty byte string.<\/p>\n<p>Any on-path attacker, such as open WiFi, a compromised ISP, captive portal, or a hostile egress proxy substitutes the response and thereby chooses the bytes returned by rand_bits and rand_int for every application that selected one of these sources via with_entropy_source. The _checkbuf method response is equally attacker-controlled, so the retry\/sleep behaviour is steerable too.<\/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-2026-18536 Published : Aug. 1, 2026, 11:16 a.m. | 33\u00a0minutes ago Description :Data::Entropy versions before 0.010 for Perl read remote entropy sources over plain HTTP. The Data::Entropy::RawSource::RandomOrg and Data::Entropy::RawSource::RandomnumbersInfo remote sources are accessed over plain HTTP. The Data::Entropy::RawSource::RandomOrg integrity check trivially matches any non-empty byte string. Any on-path attacker, such as open WiFi, &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-82852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82852","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=82852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}