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Dancer-1.3522
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Security Advisories (1)
CVE-2026-5080 (2026-04-30)

Dancer::Session::Abstract versions through 1.3522 for Perl generates session ids insecurely. The session id is generated from summing the character codepoints of the absolute pathname with the process id, the epoch time and calls to the built-in rand() function to return a number between 0 and 999-billion, and concatenating that result three times. The path name might be known or guessed by an attacker, especially for applications known to be written using Dancer with standard installation locations. The epoch time can be guessed by an attacker, and may be leaked in the HTTP header. The process id comes from a small set of numbers, and workers may have sequential process ids. The built-in rand() function is seeded with 32-bits and is considered unsuitable for security applications. Predictable session ids could allow an attacker to gain access to systems.

NAME

Dancer::Serializer::JSON - serializer for handling JSON data

VERSION

version 1.3522

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

This class is an interface between Dancer's serializer engine abstraction layer and the JSON module.

In order to use this engine, use the template setting:

serializer: JSON

This can be done in your config.yml file or directly in your app code with the set keyword. This serializer will also be used when the serializer is set to mutable and the correct Accept headers are supplied.

The JSON module will pass configuration variables straight through. Some of these can be useful when debugging/developing your app: pretty and canonical, and others useful with ORMs like DBIx::Class: allow_blessed and convert_blessed. Please consult the JSON documentation for more information and a full list of configuration settings. You can add extra settings to the engines configuration to turn these on. For example:

engines:
    JSON:
        allow_blessed:   '1'
        canonical:       '1'
        convert_blessed: '1'

METHODS

serialize

Serialize a data structure to a JSON structure.

deserialize

Deserialize a JSON structure to a data structure

content_type

Return 'application/json'

AUTHOR

Dancer Core Developers

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Alexis Sukrieh.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.