Vulnerabilites related to GRYPHON - Mojolicious::Plugin::CaptchaPNG
CVE-2025-40916 (GCVE-0-2025-40916)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-16 11:01
Modified
2025-06-16 13:31
Severity ?
CWE
  • CWE-338 - Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator
  • CWE-804 - Guessable CAPTCHA
Summary
Mojolicious::Plugin::CaptchaPNG version 1.05 for Perl uses a weak random number source for generating the captcha. That version uses the built-in rand() function for generating the captcha text as well as image noise, which is insecure.
Impacted products
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