Vulnerability Report

CVE-2024-57854

Title: Poor Random Number Generator in Net::NSCA::Client for Perl

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2024-57854.

CWE Category CWE-338

Published Date Mar 05, 2026

Modified Date Mar 09, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.1 CVSS v

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.02%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2024-57854: Net::NSCA::Client versions through 0.009002 for Perl uses a poor random number generator. Version v0.003 switched to use Data::Rand::Obscure instead of Crypt::Random for generation of a random initialisation vectors. Data::Rand::Obscure uses Perl's built-in rand() function, which is not suitable for cryptographic functions.

Impacted Vendors

net-dns 1

dougdude 1

Reference Links

https://metacpan.org/release/DOUGDUDE/Net-NSCA-Client-0.009002/source/lib/Net/NSCA/Client/InitialPacket.pm#L119 https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/dougwilson/perl5-net-nsca-client/pull/2.patch

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Severity CRITICAL

9.1

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns