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Paper/Archive/CVE-2025-40912

CVE-2025-40912

MIK CryptX — CryptX for Perl before version 0.065 contains a dependency that may be susceptible to malformed unicode

EPSS 0.4%public exploitCVSS 9.8
critical.is priorityof 100
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CVSS 9.8 (ADP)9.8 / 10 × 3029.4Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 35.2.352 × 207.0Exploit: SSVC poc+1010.0SSVC exploitation: poc+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

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.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
CryptX0.002 – < 0.0650.065CNA

Scores by source

CISA ADP9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

References

refgithub.com/libtom/libtomcrypt/issues/507