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CVE-2026-41564: CWE-335 Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) in MIK CryptX

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VulnerabilityCVE-2026-41564cvecve-2026-41564cwe-335cwe-338
Published: Thu Apr 23 2026 (04/23/2026, 07:29:26 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: MIK
Product: CryptX

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.

Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
CPANSec
Date Reserved
2026-04-21T12:45:20.132Z
Cvss Version
null
State
PUBLISHED
Remediation Level
null

Threat ID: 69e9cfd487115cfb68ce4194

Added to database: 4/23/2026, 7:52:52 AM

Last updated: 4/23/2026, 7:52:58 AM

Views: 1

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