CVE-2025-40916

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40916
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-40916.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-40916
Published
2025-06-16T11:01:08.871Z
Modified
2026-07-08T07:43:34.821723622Z
Severity
  • 9.1 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
Mojolicious::Plugin::CaptchaPNG version 1.05 for Perl uses a weak random number source for generating the captcha text
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/40xxx/CVE-2025-40916.json",
    "cna_assigner": "CPANSec",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-338",
        "CWE-804"
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/gryphonshafer/mojo-plugin-captchapng

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/gryphonshafer/mojo-plugin-captchapng
Events
Introduced
f4069779330217c7a59c752be95d79bff472d56d
Last affected
f4069779330217c7a59c752be95d79bff472d56d
Database specific 
{
    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "1.05"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.05"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

1.*
1.05
v1.*
v1.05

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-40916.json"