CVE-2026-9641

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-916 Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort
Publication date:
12/06/2026
Last modified:
14/06/2026

Description

Crypt::PBKDF2 versions before 0.261630 for Perl have a weak default algorithm and number of iterations.<br /> <br /> The default algorithm is HMAC-SHA1, which should only be used for legacy systems.<br /> <br /> These versions default to using 1000 iterations.<br /> <br /> Depending on the chosen algorithm, 220,000 to 1,400,000 iterations should be used.