CVE-2025-40912
criticalpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.004 · 35 %ileEUEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
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affected products (1)
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references (6)
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- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-40912cnnvd
- https://github.com/libtom/libtomcrypt/issues/507cnnvd
- https://metacpan.org/dist/CryptXPatchcnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-40912cnnvd
- https://github.com/libtom/libtomcrypt/issues/507enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/libtom/libtomcrypt/issues/507nvd
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