Vulnerable: version 4.48_1 is affected by 1 known vulnerability. See below.

www/p5-CGI-Session 4.48_1 DragonFly

Perl extension for persistent session management

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
Categories: perl5, www
Package size: 87.4 KiB, 194.0 KiB installed

Description

"CGI::Session" is Perl5 library that provides an easy persistent session management system across HTTP requests. Session persistence is a very important issue in web applications. Shopping carts, user-recognition features, login and authentication methods and etc. all require persistent session management mechanism, which is both secure and reliable. "CGI::Session" provides with just that. You can read the whole documentation as a tutorial on session management. But if you are already familiar with "CGI::Session" go to the methods section for the list of all the methods available.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 4.49, as upstream numbers it.

System

Port

Version

Vulnerabilities

Status

Maintainer

Last update

DragonFly

www/p5-CGI-Session

4.48_1 behind since 2026-07-02

1 known

[email protected]

FreeBSD

www/p5-CGI-Session

4.49 newest

none known

[email protected]

2026-07-04

OpenBSD

www/p5-CGI-Session

4.49 newest

no data

The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]>

2026-08-12

NetBSD

www/p5-CGI-Session

4.49nb1 newest

none known

[email protected]

2026-07-16

HardenedBSD

www/p5-CGI-Session

4.49 newest

no data

[email protected]

GhostBSD

www/p5-CGI-Session

4.49 newest

no data

[email protected]

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Install

Binary package:

pkg install p5-CGI-Session

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/www/p5-CGI-Session && make install clean

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

graph LR
  me["www/p5-CGI-Session"]
  u0["databases/p5-CGI-Session-Driver-memcached"] --> me
  u1["deskutils/plans"] --> me
  u2["net-mgmt/smokeping"] --> me
  u3["security/p5-openxpki"] --> me
  u4["www/foswiki"] --> me
  u5["www/ikiwiki"] --> me
  u6["www/p5-Apache-MP3"] --> me
  u7["www/p5-CGI-Application-Plugin-Session"] --> me
  umore(["3 more"]) -.-> me
  me --> d0["lang/perl5.36"]
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Dependencies

Run dependencies 1

lang/perl5.36

Required by 11

Known vulnerabilities 1

2026-07-04 — p5-CGI-Session -- secuity fixes

12 DragonFly ports depend on it, directly or through others, and may carry the vulnerable code. The ports that need it