CVE-2017-20240 UNKNOWN

CVE-2017-20240

Published: 2026-06-12

Description

Crypt::PBKDF2 versions before 0.261630 for Perl are vulnerable to timing attacks. These versions use Perl's built-in eq comparison. Discrepancies in timing could be used to guess the underlying derived-key.

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