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CVE-2026-18536                                       CPAN Security Group
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         CVE ID:  CVE-2026-18536
   Distribution:  Data-Entropy
       Versions:  before 0.010

       MetaCPAN:  https://metacpan.org/dist/Data-Entropy
       VCS Repo:  https://github.com/robrwo/Data-Entropy

Data::Entropy versions before 0.010 for Perl read remote entropy
sources over plain HTTP

Description
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Data::Entropy versions before 0.010 for Perl read remote entropy
sources over plain HTTP.

The Data::Entropy::RawSource::RandomOrg and
Data::Entropy::RawSource::RandomnumbersInfo remote sources are accessed
over plain HTTP.

The Data::Entropy::RawSource::RandomOrg integrity check trivially
matches any non-empty byte string.

Any on-path attacker, such as open WiFi, a compromised ISP, captive
portal, or a hostile egress proxy substitutes the response and thereby
chooses the bytes returned by rand_bits and rand_int for every
application that selected one of these sources via with_entropy_source.
The _checkbuf method response is equally attacker-controlled, so the
retry/sleep behaviour is steerable too.

Problem types
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- CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
- CWE-353 Missing Support for Integrity Check

Workarounds
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Deployments should not use the RandomOrg or RandomnumbersInfo sources,
as these are flawed.

They have been removed from Data::Entropy 0.010. (There was a change to
use HTTPS to connect to these sources in version 0.009 that did not
work.)

Note that Data::Entropy has been deprecated since version 0.008. Users
are advised to migrate to alternative solutions that use system sources
of random data, such as Crypt::SysRandom, Crypt::URandom or
Crypt::PRNG.

References
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https://github.com/robrwo/Data-Entropy/security/advisories/GHSA-845w-rcqw-jwvv
https://metacpan.org/release/RRWO/Data-Entropy-0.010/changes
https://metacpan.org/release/RRWO/Data-Entropy-0.008/view/lib/Data/Entropy.pm#STATUS
https://security.metacpan.org/docs/guides/random-data-for-security.html