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 2.6

  • Change: 7da3392c4a45d33734f9e88ecf36ccb6432ed271 Author: Tobias Kirschstein <lev@ideegeo.com> Date : 2019-11-26 17:59:19 +0000
    • auth header format as an attribute
  • Change: 5c8c9874b4ce8fb98a04d4b678c7397c61dd34bd Author: Tobias Kirschstein <lev@ideegeo.com> Date : 2019-11-18 15:46:57 +0000
    • cleanup after dzil

Modules

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