CVE-2025-40912

Published Jun 11, 2025

Last updated a month ago

Overview

Description
CryptX for Perl before version 0.065 contains a dependency that may be susceptible to malformed unicode. CryptX embeds the tomcrypt library. The versions of that library in CryptX before 0.065 may be susceptible to CVE-2019-17362.
Source
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
9.8
Impact score
5.9
Exploitability score
3.9
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity
CRITICAL

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References

Sources include official advisories and independent security research.