CVE-2024-58135

Mojolicious versions from 7.28 for Perl will generate weak HMAC session cookie secrets via "mojo generate app" by default When creating a default app skeleton with the "mojo generate app" tool, a weak secret is written to the application's configuration file using the insecure rand() function, and used for authenticating and protecting the integrity of the application's sessions. This may allow an attacker to brute force the application's session keys.

The following products are affected by CVE-2024-58135 vulnerability.

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2024-58135.

URL	Resource
https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat/pull/4090
https://github.com/mojolicious/mojo/pull/2200
https://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2025/05/msg00016.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2025/05/msg00017.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2025/05/msg00018.html
https://metacpan.org/release/SRI/Mojolicious-7.28/source/lib/Mojolicious/Command/generate/app.pm#L220
https://metacpan.org/release/SRI/Mojolicious-9.38/source/lib/Mojolicious/Command/Author/generate/app.pm#L202
https://metacpan.org/release/SRI/Mojolicious-9.39/source/lib/Mojo/Util.pm#L181
https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/rand
https://security.metacpan.org/docs/guides/random-data-for-security.html