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Starch-0.01
⭐ Starred 3 / Starch::Plugin
Security Advisories (1)
CVE-2025-40925 (2025-09-20)

Starch versions 0.14 and earlier generate session ids insecurely. The default session id generator returns a SHA-1 hash seeded with a counter, the epoch time, the built-in rand function, the PID, and internal Perl reference addresses. The PID will come from a small set of numbers, and the epoch time may be guessed, if it is not leaked from the HTTP Date header. The built-in rand function is unsuitable for cryptographic usage. Predicable session ids could allow an attacker to gain access to systems.

NAME

Starch::Plugin - Starch plugin framework.

DESCRIPTION

See "PLUGINS" in Starch for instructions on using plugins and a list of available plugins.

WRITING

Plugins can modify any of the manager (Starch::Manager), state (Starch::State), and store (Starch::Store) classes to extend functionality.

A plugin may extend several of these classes, via plugin bundles, or just one. A common setup is a plugin bundle which adds arguments to the manager object and then adds logic to the state objects which acts upon the arguments.

See Starch::Plugin::CookieArgs for a basic example plugin. See "PLUGINS" in Starch for more existing plugins.

See the SYNOPSIS in Starch::Plugin::Bundle, Starch::Plugin::ForManager, Starch::Plugin::ForState, and Starch::Plugin::ForStore documentation for some decent boilerplate for writing new plugins.

Plugins and plugin bundles are applied by Starch::Factory, which itself acts as a dynamic plugin bundle.

AUTHORS AND LICENSE

See "AUTHOR" in Starch, "CONTRIBUTORS" in Starch, and "LICENSE" in Starch.