CVE-2025-27552 | DBIx::Class::EncodedColumn until 0.00032 for Perl uses insecure rand() function for salting password hashes in Crypt/Eksblowfish/Bcrypt.pm

DBIx::Class::EncodedColumn use the rand() function, which is not cryptographically secure to salt password hashes. This vulnerability is associated with program files Crypt/Eksblowfish/Bcrypt.pm. This issue affects DBIx::Class::EncodedColumn until 0.00032.

Published: 2025-03-26 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e Source: 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-27552 is rated Low Risk (16.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.02%). Mandatory action: Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-27552

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-03-26 0.02%

Full EPSS history (1 record total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-27552

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.0 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
2.5 1.4 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-27552

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-27552

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2025-27552 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (libdbix-class-encodedcolumn-perl), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 3, open 2. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-27552
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-27552 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libdbix-class-encodedcolumn-perl), 9 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, upstream, xenial): needs-triage 7, ignored 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-27552

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-27552

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2025-27552

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