CVE-2025-40914

critical

Description

Perl CryptX before version 0.087 contains a dependency that may be susceptible to an integer overflow. CryptX embeds a version of the libtommath library that is susceptible to an integer overflow associated with CVE-2023-36328.

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-36328

https://metacpan.org/release/MIK/CryptX-0.086/source/src/ltm/bn_mp_grow.c

https://github.com/libtom/libtommath/pull/546

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j3xv-6967-cv88

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-06-11

Updated: 2025-06-12

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: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00044