CVE-2026-5088: Understanding the Vulnerability The recent CVE-2026-5088 vulnerability highlights a serious issue in Apache::API::Password versions up to v0.5.2 for Perl. Specifically, the methods _make_salt and _make_salt_bcrypt can generate insecure random values for salts. This flaw is critical, as the built-in rand function may be used if secure random modules are unavailable, making applications vulnerable to […]













