libsodium <= 1.0.20 or a version of libsodium released before December 30, 2025 contains a vulnerability documented as CVE-2025-69277 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-69277 .
The libsodium vulnerability states:
In atypical use cases involving certain custom cryptography or untrusted data to crypto_core_ed25519_is_valid_point, mishandles checks for whether an elliptic curve point is valid because it sometimes allows points that aren't in the main cryptographic group.
0.000042 includes a version of libsodium updated to 1.0.20-stable, released January 3, 2026, which includes a fix for the vulnerability.
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| Description | Crypt::Sodium::XS module versions prior to 0.000042, for Perl, include a vulnerable version of libsodium libsodium <= 1.0.20 or a version of libsodium released before December 30, 2025 contains a vulnerability documented as CVE-2025-69277 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-69277 . The libsodium vulnerability states: In atypical use cases involving certain custom cryptography or untrusted data to crypto_core_ed25519_is_valid_point, mishandles checks for whether an elliptic curve point is valid because it sometimes allows points that aren't in the main cryptographic group. 0.000042 includes a version of libsodium updated to 1.0.20-stable, released January 3, 2026, which includes a fix for the vulnerability. | |
| Title | Crypt::Sodium::XS module versions prior to 0.000042, for Perl, include a vulnerable version of libsodium | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-1395 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: CPANSec
Published:
Updated: 2026-01-06T19:01:27.678Z
Reserved: 2026-01-03T22:06:02.639Z
Link: CVE-2025-15444
Updated: 2026-01-06T14:23:58.300Z
Status : Received
Published: 2026-01-06T01:16:01.240
Modified: 2026-01-06T19:15:57.147
Link: CVE-2025-15444
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