CVE-2026-74900EPSS p44.7%

CVE-2026-74900CVE-2026-74900

jahlives / openssl_encrypt

Description

openssl_encrypt versions before 1.4.0 contain a critical vulnerability in pqc.py where KEM decapsulation failures silently fall back to simulation mode, generating a deterministic shared secret from only 16 bytes of the private key and publicly available encapsulated key data. Attackers who obtain 16 bytes of the private key can compute the shared secret and decrypt all ciphertext, as the fallback triggers on any KEM failure without raising an error.

Scoring

CVSS 9.8 ()
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS0.56% probability of exploitation · percentile 44.7% · 2026-10-06T12:00:23Z
Last modified2026-09-01
Sourced from NVD + FIRST.org EPSS. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.