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            "url": "https://www.first.org/tlp/"
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            "category": "description",
            "text": "Starch versions 0.14 and earlier generate session ids insecurely.  The default session id generator returns a SHA-1 hash seeded with a counter, the epoch time, the built-in rand function, the PID, and internal Perl reference addresses. The PID will come from a small set of numbers, and the epoch time may be guessed, if it is not leaked from the HTTP Date header. The built-in rand function is unsuitable for cryptographic usage.  Predicable session ids could allow an attacker to gain access to systems.",
            "title": "Vulnerability Description"
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         "category": "other",
         "contact_details": "gdt@cpan.org",
         "name": "giterlizzi",
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         {
            "category": "self",
            "summary": "CPANSA-Starch-2025-40925 JSON",
            "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/giterlizzi/perl-CPANSA-CSAF/develop/csaf/white/2025/cpansa-starch-2025-40925.json"
         },
         {
            "category": "external",
            "summary": "https://github.com/bluefeet/Starch/commit/5573449e64e0660f7ee209d1eab5881d4ccbee3b.patch",
            "url": "https://github.com/bluefeet/Starch/commit/5573449e64e0660f7ee209d1eab5881d4ccbee3b.patch"
         },
         {
            "category": "external",
            "summary": "https://github.com/bluefeet/Starch/pull/5",
            "url": "https://github.com/bluefeet/Starch/pull/5"
         },
         {
            "category": "external",
            "summary": "https://metacpan.org/dist/Starch/source/lib/Starch/Manager.pm",
            "url": "https://metacpan.org/dist/Starch/source/lib/Starch/Manager.pm"
         },
         {
            "category": "external",
            "summary": "CVE-2025-40925 (NVD)",
            "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-40925"
         }
      ],
      "title": "Starch vulnerability",
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         "current_release_date": "2025-09-20T00:00:00",
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               "name": "CSAF Perl Toolkit",
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            {
               "date": "2025-09-20T00:00:00",
               "number": "1",
               "summary": "First release"
            }
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                  "name": "vers:cpan/<=0.14",
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                     "product_id": "CSAFPID-0001"
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         }
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            "name": "Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)"
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            {
               "category": "description",
               "text": "Starch versions 0.14 and earlier generate session ids insecurely.\n\nThe default session id generator returns a SHA-1 hash seeded with a counter, the epoch time, the built-in rand function, the PID, and internal Perl reference addresses. The PID will come from a small set of numbers, and the epoch time may be guessed, if it is not leaked from the HTTP Date header. The built-in rand function is unsuitable for cryptographic usage.\n\nPredicable session ids could allow an attacker to gain access to systems.",
               "title": "Vulnerability Description"
            }
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                  "version": "3.1"
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