Security Advisories (2)
CVE-2013-10075 (2026-05-08)

Apache::Session versions through 1.94 for Perl re-creates deleted sessions. The session stores Apache::Session::Store::File and Apache::Session::Store::DB_File will create a session that does not exist. This can lead to sessions being revived, potentially with data that was to be deleted.

CVE-2025-40931 (2026-03-05)

Apache::Session::Generate::MD5 versions through 1.94 for Perl create insecure session id. Apache::Session::Generate::MD5 generates session ids insecurely. The default session id generator returns a MD5 hash seeded with the built-in rand() function, the epoch time, and the PID. The PID will come from a small set of numbers, and the epoch time may be guessed, if it is not leaked from the HTTP Date header. The built-in rand function is unsuitable for cryptographic usage. Predicable session ids could allow an attacker to gain access to systems. Note that the libapache-session-perl package in some Debian-based Linux distributions may be patched to use Crypt::URandom.

Modules

A persistence framework for session data
Session management via a File::CounterFile UNAUTHORIZED
Session persistence via DBI
Session persistence via DBI
works with HTML::Embperl

Provides

in Session/Counted.pm UNAUTHORIZED
in Session/DaemonLocker.pm
in Session/File.pm
in Session/FileStore.pm
in Session/MemoryStore.pm
in Session/NullLocker.pm
in Session/PosixFileLocker.pm
in Session/SingleThread.pm
in Session/SysVSemaphoreLocker.pm
in Session/Tree.pm
in Session/TreeStore.pm

Examples