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CVE-2002-20002

medium

Description

The Net::EasyTCP package before 0.15 for Perl always uses Perl's builtin rand(), which is not a strong random number generator, for cryptographic keys.

References

https://metacpan.org/release/MNAGUIB/EasyTCP-0.26/changes

https://metacpan.org/release/MNAGUIB/EasyTCP-0.15/view/EasyTCP.pm

https://github.com/briandfoy/cpan-security-advisory/issues/184

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-01-02

Updated: 2026-04-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0005