Security Advisories (1)
CVE-2024-57868 (2025-04-05)

Web::API 2.8 and earlier for Perl uses the rand() function as the default source of entropy, which is not cryptographically secure, for cryptographic functions. Specifically Web::API uses the Data::Random library which specifically states that it is "Useful mostly for test programs". Data::Random uses the rand() function.

Changes for version 1.0

  • Change: 72d5d872f0b55d76358601ce8c1b774978c4b5e6 Author: Tobias Kirschstein <lev@ideegeo.com> Date : 2013-09-13 14:51:31 +0000
    • after using in production for a while now decided to go 1.0! yay
  • Change: c23063ca4f35dfb5cb929d887ea1d39a2502fdd2 Author: Tobias Kirschstein <lev@ideegeo.com> Date : 2013-09-13 14:50:57 +0000
    • for convenience path can be ommitted if it's the same as the command name

Modules

Web::API - A Simple base module to implement almost every RESTful API with just a few lines of configuration