VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2025-40916
CVSS score9.1 CRITICAL
EPSS probability0.42%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2025-06-16
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Description
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.
Weakness classification
- 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e: CWE-338