CVE-2026-81721EPSS p45.9%

CVE-2026-81721CVE-2026-81721

jahlives / openssl_encrypt

Description

openssl_encrypt before 1.4.9 fails to validate KDF cost parameters in encrypted file metadata and keystore headers, allowing attackers to trigger unbounded memory allocation. Attackers can craft malicious encrypted files declaring arbitrarily large Argon2, scrypt, or balloon KDF parameters to exhaust system memory and crash the process without authentication.

Scoring

CVSS 7.5 ()
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS0.58% probability of exploitation · percentile 45.9% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z
Last modified2026-09-02
Sourced from NVD + FIRST.org EPSS. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.