{"id":"CVE-2025-15444","title":"Crypt::Sodium::XS module versions prior to 0.000042, for Perl, include a vulnerable version of libsodium\n\nlibsodium <= 1.0.20 or a version of libsodium released before December 30, 2025 contains a vulnerability documented as CVE-2025-692…","summary":"Crypt::Sodium::XS module versions prior to 0.000042, for Perl, include a vulnerable version of libsodium\n\nlibsodium <= 1.0.20 or a version of libsodium released before December 30, 2025 contains a vulnerability documented as CVE-2025-692…","severity":"critical","cvss":9.8,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","cwe":["CWE-347"],"vendor":"iamb","product":"crypt::sodium::xs","affected":["crypt::sodium::xs < 0.000042"],"patched":["crypt::sodium::xs 0.000042"],"published":"2026-01-06","updated":"2026-09-30","sourceUpdated":"2026-09-30T22:10:00.273","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-15444","references":[{"url":"https://00f.net/2025/12/30/libsodium-vulnerability/","label":"9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e"},{"url":"https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/commit/ad3004ec8731730e93fcfbbc824e67eadc1c1bae","label":"9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e"},{"url":"https://metacpan.org/dist/Crypt-Sodium-XS/changes","label":"9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e"}],"tags":["nvd"],"epss":0.00264,"epssPercentile":0.16575,"ingestedAt":"2026-09-30T22:27:27.699Z","slug":"CVE-2025-15444","body":"## Overview\n\nCrypt::Sodium::XS module versions prior to 0.000042, for Perl, include a vulnerable version of libsodium\n\nlibsodium <= 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 .\n\nThe libsodium vulnerability states:\n\nIn 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.\n\n0.000042 includes a version of libsodium updated to 1.0.20-stable, released January 3, 2026, which includes a fix for the vulnerability.\n\n## Affected\n\n- `crypt::sodium::xs < 0.000042`\n\n## Remediation\n\nUpgrade past the affected range:\n\n- `crypt::sodium::xs 0.000042`","depth":"midnight","depthScore":54,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":53.9,"likelihood":0.1,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}