Security Advisories (1)
CVE-2025-40923 (2025-07-16)

Plack-Middleware-Session before version 0.35 for Perl generates session ids insecurely. The default session id generator returns a SHA-1 hash seeded with the built-in rand function, the epoch time, and the PID. 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.

Changes for version 0.26 - 2015-02-03

  • Improved documentation (oalders, basiliscos, Mohammad Anwar, alexmv)
  • Session storage is now updated in the cleanup phase, after the streaming is complete (alexmv) #28

Modules

Middleware for session management
Session middleware that saves session data in the cookie
Middleware for session management
Run code when the environment is destroyed
Basic parameter-based session state
Basic cookie-based session state
Basic in-memory session store
Cache session store
DBI-based session store
Basic file-based session store