Bug 2380929 (CVE-2025-40923) - CVE-2025-40923 plack-middleware-session: Plack-Middleware-Session insecure session ids
Summary: CVE-2025-40923 plack-middleware-session: Plack-Middleware-Session insecure se...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-40923
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2381420 2381421
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Reported: 2025-07-16 14:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-07-16 18:34 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-07-16 14:01:48 UTC
Plack-Middleware-Session before version 0.35 for Perl generates session ids insecurely.

The default session id generator returns a SHA-1 hash seeded with the built-in rand function, the epoch time, and the PID. 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.

Predicable session ids could allow an attacker to gain access to systems.


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