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Security Advisories (2)
CVE-2025-15444 (2026-01-06)

Crypt::Sodium::XS module versions prior to 0.000042, for Perl, include a vulnerable version of libsodium libsodium <= 1.0.20 or a version of libsodium released before December 30, 2025 contains a vulnerability documented as CVE-2025-69277  https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-69277 . The libsodium vulnerability states: In atypical use cases involving certain custom cryptography or untrusted data to crypto_core_ed25519_is_valid_point, mishandles checks for whether an elliptic curve point is valid because it sometimes allows points that aren't in the main cryptographic group. 0.000042 includes a version of libsodium updated to 1.0.20-stable, released January 3, 2026, which includes a fix for the vulnerability.

CVE-2026-30910 (2026-03-08)

Crypt::Sodium::XS versions through 0.001000 for Perl has potential integer overflows. Combined aead encryption, combined signature creation, and bin2hex functions do not check that output size will be less than SIZE_MAX, which could lead to integer wraparound causing an undersized output buffer. This can cause a crash in bin2hex and encryption algorithms other than aes256gcm. For aes256gcm encryption and signatures, an undersized buffer could lead to buffer overflow. Encountering this issue is unlikely as the message length would need to be very large. For bin2hex the input size would have to be > SIZE_MAX / 2 For aegis encryption the input size would need to be > SIZE_MAX - 32U For other encryption the input size would need to be > SIZE_MAX - 16U For signatures the input size would need to be > SIZE_MAX - 64U

NAME

Crypt::Sodium::XS::shorthash - Short-input hashing

SYNOPSIS

  use Crypt::Sodium::XS::shorthash ":default";

my $key = shorthash_keygen;
my $msg = "short input";

my $hash = shorthash($msg, $key);

DESCRIPTION

Crypt::Sodium::XS::shorthash outputs short but unpredictable (without knowing the secret key) values suitable for picking a list in a hash table for a given key. This function is optimized for short inputs.

The output of this function is only 64 bits. Therefore, it should not be considered collision-resistant.

Use cases:

  • Hash tables

  • Probabilistic data structures such as Bloom filters

  • Integrity checking in interactive protocols

FUNCTIONS

Nothing is exported by default. A :default tag imports the functions and constants documented below. A separate :<primitive> import tag is provided for each of the primitives listed in "PRIMITIVES". These tags import the shorthash_<primitive>_* functions and constants for that primitive. A :all tag imports everything.

shorthash_keygen

my $key = shorthash_keygen($flags);

$flags is optional. It is the flags used for the $key Crypt::Sodium::XS::MemVault. See Crypt::Sodium::XS::ProtMem.

Returns a Crypt::Sodium::XS::MemVault: a new secret key of "shorthash_KEYBYTES" bytes.

shorthash

my $hash = shorthash($message, $key);

$message is the message to hash. It may be a Crypt::Sodium::XS::MemVault.

$key is the secret key used in the hash. It must be "shorthash_KEYBYTES" bytes. It may be a Crypt::Sodium::XS::MemVault.

Returns the hash output of "BYTES" bytes.

CONSTANTS

shorthash_PRIMITIVE

my $default_primitive = shorthash_PRIMITIVE();

Returns the name of the default primitive.

shorthash_BYTES

my $hash_size = shorthash_BYTES();

Returns the size, in bytes, of hash output.

shorthash_KEYBYTES

my $key_size = shorthash_KEYBYTES();

Returns the size, in bytes, of a secret key.

PRIMITIVES

All functions have shorthash_<primitive>-prefixed counterparts (e.g., shorthash_siphashx24_keygen).

  • siphash24 (default)

  • siphashx24

SEE ALSO

Crypt::Sodium::XS
Crypt::Sodium::XS::OO::shorthash
https://doc.libsodium.org/hashing/short-input_hashing

FEEDBACK

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AUTHOR

Brad Barden <perlmodules@5c30.org>

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2022 Brad Barden. All rights reserved.

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