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CVE-2026-5088 affects Apache::API::Password in the Apache2-API Perl distribution through version 0.5.2. The vulnerability is in the _make_salt and _make_salt_bcrypt methods, which attempt to generate cryptographically secure random bytes for password salts by loading Crypt::URandom and then Bytes::Random::Secure. If neither module is available, the code falls back to generating 16 bytes using Perl's built-in rand function. Because rand is not suitable for cryptographic use, the resulting salts used in password hashing may be weak and predictable, reducing the security of stored password hashes.
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