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CVE-2026-41564

CryptX versions before 0.088 for Perl do not reseed the Crypt::PK PRNG state after forking.

high entropy

Entropy / wallet impact

CryptX versions before 0.088 for Perl do not reseed the Crypt::PK PRNG state after forking.

Description

CryptX versions before 0.088 for Perl do not reseed the Crypt::PK PRNG state after forking.

The Crypt::PK::RSA, Crypt::PK::DSA, Crypt::PK::DH, Crypt::PK::ECC, Crypt::PK::Ed25519 and Crypt::PK::X25519 modules seed a per-object PRNG state in their constructors and reuse it without fork detection. A Crypt::PK::* object created before fork() shares byte-identical PRNG state with every child process, and any randomized operation they perform can produce identical output, including key generation. Two ECDSA or DSA signatures from different processes are enough to recover the signing private key through nonce-reuse key recovery.

This affects preforking services such as the Starman web server, where a Crypt::PK::* object loaded at startup is inherited by every worker process.

CWE

CWE-335CWE-338

Primary sources

Published
2026-04-23T08:16:01Z
Last modified
2026-06-17T10:46:51Z
First seen here
2026-08-18T15:11:37Z
CVSS
7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
Credibility
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