---
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: 0.16602
ingestedAt: '2026-09-30T22:27:27.699Z'
---

## Overview

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.

## Affected

- `crypt::sodium::xs < 0.000042`

## Remediation

Upgrade past the affected range:

- `crypt::sodium::xs 0.000042`