Bug 2374457

Summary:	CVE-2025-6545 perl-Crypt-PBKDF2: pbkdf2 silently returns predictable key material [fedora-42]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jon Moroney <jmoroney>
Component:	perl-Crypt-PBKDF2	Assignee:	Paul Howarth <paul>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	42	CC:	paul, perl-devel
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Hardware:	Unspecified
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Whiteboard:	{"flaws": ["2ae42637-5c9b-4a55-9e99-d9ed1b092d9c"]}
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Last Closed:	2025-06-24 12:02:51 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	2374370

Description Jon Moroney 2025-06-23 23:17:01 UTC

More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2374370

Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 1 Paul Howarth 2025-06-24 12:02:51 UTC

perl-Crypt-PBKDF2 does not use Nodejs and npm pbkdf2 in any way.