CVE-2025-15444

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2025-15444 · Published 06/01/2026 · updated 07/10/2026

In short

CVE-2025-15444 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting crypt (iamb).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.27%, higher than 19.3% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 0.000042 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
crypt iamb	`< 0.000042`	`0.000042`

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.

References

00f.net/2025/12/30/libsodium-vulnerability · Third Party Advisory
jedisct1/libsodium commit ad3004e · Patch
metacpan.org/dist/Crypt-Sodium-XS/changes · Product

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Affected versions

Patched versions

crypt

iamb

< 0.000042

0.000042

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