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Catalyst-Plugin-Session-0.40
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/ Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Test::Store
Security Advisories (1)
CVE-2025-40924 (2025-07-17)

Catalyst::Plugin::Session before version 0.44 for Perl generates session ids insecurely. The session id is generated from a (usually SHA-1) hash of a simple counter, the epoch time, the built-in rand function, the PID and the current Catalyst context. This information is of low entropy. 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

Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Test::Store - Reusable sanity for session storage engines.

SYNOPSIS

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Test::Store (
    backend => "FastMmap",
    config => {
        storage => "/tmp/foo",
    },
);

DESCRIPTION