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CVE-2025-15444                                       CPAN Security Group
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         CVE ID:  CVE-2025-15444
   Distribution:  Crypt-Sodium-XS
       Versions:  before 0.000042

       MetaCPAN:  https://metacpan.org/dist/Crypt-Sodium-XS

Crypt::Sodium::XS module versions prior to 0.000042, for Perl, include
a vulnerable version of libsodium

Description
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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.

Problem types
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- CWE-1395 Dependency on Vulnerable Third-Party Component

Solutions
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Upgrade to version 0.000042 or later

References
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https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/commit/ad3004ec8731730e93fcfbbc824e67eadc1c1bae
https://00f.net/2025/12/30/libsodium-vulnerability/
https://metacpan.org/dist/Crypt-Sodium-XS/changes