CVE-2025-40905 describes a cryptographic weakness in WWW::OAuth 1.000 and earlier for Perl, where the rand() function, an insecure source of entropy, is used for cryptographic operations. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.3 (HIGH), indicating that an unauthenticated attacker can exploit it over the network with low complexity to achieve low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.000CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:dbook:www\:\:oauth:*:*:*:*:*:perl:*:* | ||
>= 0, <= 1.000CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:dbook:www\:\:oauth:*:*:*:*:*:perl:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.