CVE-2003-0900 Weak cryptography in n/a
Medium 5.0
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2003-0900 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2003-0900 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 14 Apr 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2003-0900 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2003-0900/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2003-0900/index.md)
Attackers can predict random numbers generated by Perl after forking, potentially compromising cryptographic security.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2003-0900?
CVE-2003-0900 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 14 Apr 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Perl 5.8.1 on Fedora Core does not properly initialize the random number generator when forking, which makes it easier for attackers to predict random numbers.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2003-0900?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Larry Wall Perl.
How do I fix CVE-2003-0900?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2003-0900 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2003-0900 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0900, GHSA-x75m-p75h-4759.