Vulnerability in Lincoln D. Stein Crypt Cbc

CVE-2006-0898

Crypt::CBC Perl module 2.16 and earlier, when running in RandomIV mode, uses an initialization vector (IV) of 8 bytes, which results in weaker encryption when used with a cipher that requires a larger block size than 8 bytes, such as Rijndael.

EPSS: 0.014 (69.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

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