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CVE-2026-74874: openssl encrypt before 1.4.0 (exclusive); +1 more affected products
CVE-2026-74874. CVSS 3.1 base score 7.5 (HIGH, Vendor/CNA). EPSS 0.00437 (percentile 0.35854), scored 2026-10-06.
Affected technology
openssl encrypt · before 1.4.0 (exclusive)
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openssl_encrypt · 0 to before 1.4.0
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Description’s affected range: versions before 1.4.0 use Python's non-cryptographic random module for steganographic pixel selection in the generate_pseudorandom_sequence function
Component: Not specified by the source
Attack conditions (Vendor/CNA, CVSS 4.0): Network (remote) · No privileges required · No user interaction required
What an attacker can do
Vendor/CNA’s CVSS 4.0 assessment (base score 8.7/10) rates confidentiality impact as high; integrity and availability impact as none. The description does not specify what an attacker can achieve beyond these rated impacts.
- CWE
- CWE-338
- CCR priority
- 30.1 /100 (P4)
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 /10 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N · Vendor/CNA
- EPSS
- 0.00437 · percentile 0.35957 · 2026-10-08
- KEV
- no
Provenance
- FIRST EPSS daily exploit-probability · Source record · observed 2026-10-08 17:36:22.845483+00:00 UTC
- NVD CVE API 2.0 · Source record · observed 2026-10-08 17:32:11.049884+00:00 UTC
Stable permalink: https://cybercodered.org/item/cve-cve-2026-74874.html