Vulnerability in Gryphon Mojolicious::plugin::captchapng

CVE-2025-40916

Mojolicious::Plugin::CaptchaPNG version 1.05 for Perl uses a weak random number source for generating the captcha. That version uses the built-in rand() function for generating the captcha text as well as image noise, which is insecure.

EPSS: 0.003 (52.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References