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Security Advisories (3)
CVE-2006-1279 (2006-03-19)

CGI::Session 4.03-1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files used by (1) Driver::File, (2) Driver::db_file, and possibly (3) Driver::sqlite.

CPANSA-CGI-Session-2006-01 (2006-04-06)

possible SQL injection attack

CVE-2026-56016 (2026-07-01)

CGI::Session::ID::md5 versions before 4.49 for Perl generate predictable session ids from low-entropy sources. The generate_id method builds the session id from a MD5 digest of the process id, the epoch time, and the built-in rand() function. All three are predictable, low-entropy sources: the PID is drawn from a small range, the epoch time can be guessed or read from the HTTP Date header, and Perl's rand() is unsuitable for security purposes because it is predictable and reversible. An attacker who predicts a session id can impersonate the corresponding session and bypass authentication.

NAME

CGI::Session::ID::MD5 - default CGI::Session ID driver

SYNOPSIS

use CGI::Session qw/-api3/;

$session = new CGI::Session("driver:SomeDriver;id:MD5", undef, \%attrs);

DESCRIPTION

CGI::Session::ID::MD5 is to generate MD5 encoded hexidecimal random ids. The library does not require any arguments.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2002 Sherzod Ruzmetov. All rights reserved.

This library is free software. You can modify and distribute it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

Sherzod Ruzmetov <sherzodr@cpan.org>

Feedbacks, suggestions and patches are welcome.

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