{ "document": { "category": "csaf_security_advisory", "csaf_version": "2.0", "distribution": { "tlp": { "label": "WHITE", "url": "https://www.first.org/tlp/" } }, "lang": "en", "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "CallBackery versions before 0.62.0 for Perl allow session cookie forgery via a signing secret generated with rand().\n\nThe secret that signs session cookies is built from two calls to the built-in rand(), which is seeded with 32 bits. The secret therefore has at most 2**32 possible values, and one signed cookie is enough to test each candidate offline.\n\nAn attacker who obtains a single session cookie can recover the secret and sign cookies for any user, including an administrator.", "title": "Vulnerability Description" } ], "publisher": { "category": "other", "contact_details": "gdt@cpan.org", "name": "giterlizzi", "namespace": "https://github.com/giterlizzi/" }, "references": [ { "category": "self", "summary": "CPANSA-CallBackery-2026-118986 JSON", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/giterlizzi/perl-CPANSA-CSAF/develop/csaf/white/2026/cpansa-callbackery-2026-118986.json" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://metacpan.org/release/OETIKER/CallBackery-0.62.0/changes", "url": "https://metacpan.org/release/OETIKER/CallBackery-0.62.0/changes" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "CVE-2026-118986 (NVD)", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-118986" } ], "title": "CallBackery vulnerability", "tracking": { "current_release_date": "2026-10-30T00:00:00", "generator": { "engine": { "name": "CSAF Perl Toolkit", "version": "0.26" } }, "id": "CPANSA-CallBackery-2026-118986", "initial_release_date": "2026-10-30T00:00:00", "revision_history": [ { "date": "2026-10-30T00:00:00", "number": "1", "summary": "First release" } ], "status": "final", "version": "1" } }, "product_tree": { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "vers:cpan/<0.62.0", "product": { "name": "CallBackery less than 0.62.0", "product_id": "CSAFPID-0001", "product_identification_helper": { "purl": "pkg:cpan/CallBackery" } } }, { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "vers:cpan/>=0.62.0", "product": { "name": "CallBackery greater than or equal 0.62.0", "product_id": "CSAFPID-0002", "product_identification_helper": { "purl": "pkg:cpan/CallBackery" } } } ], "category": "product_name", "name": "CallBackery" } ] }, "vulnerabilities": [ { "cve": "CVE-2026-118986", "cwe": { "id": "CWE-338", "name": "Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)" }, "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "CallBackery versions before 0.62.0 for Perl allow session cookie forgery via a signing secret generated with rand().\n\nThe secret that signs session cookies is built from two calls to the built-in rand(), which is seeded with 32 bits. The secret therefore has at most 2**32 possible values, and one signed cookie is enough to test each candidate offline.\n\nAn attacker who obtains a single session cookie can recover the secret and sign cookies for any user, including an administrator.", "title": "Vulnerability Description" } ], "product_status": { "fixed": [ "CSAFPID-0002" ], "known_affected": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] } } ] }