CVE-2026-74886: openssl encrypt before 1.4.0 (exclusive); +1 more affected products

CVE-2026-74886. CVSS 3.1 base score 9.8 (CRITICAL, Vendor/CNA). EPSS 0.00684 (percentile 0.52006), scored 22-Oct-2026.

Affected technology

openssl encrypt · before 1.4.0 (exclusive)
jahlives

openssl_encrypt · 0 to before 1.4.0
jahlives

Description’s affected range: versions before 1.4.0

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

Attackers can bypass AST analysis through string obfuscation or encoding to import unblocked dangerous modules like sys, shutil, multiprocessing, importlib, and pickle for arbitrary code execution. Vendor/CNA’s CVSS 4.0 assessment (base score 9.3/10) rates confidentiality, integrity and availability impact as high.

Published 24-Oct-2026 01:43 UTC

CWE: CWE-184
CCR priority: 39.4 /100 (P4)
CVSS 3.1: 9.8 /10 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H · Vendor/CNA
EPSS: 0.00684 · percentile 0.52006 · 2026-10-22
KEV: no

Provenance

NVD CVE API 2.0 · Source record · observed 2026-10-24 01:40:49.068977+00:00 UTC

Stable permalink: https://cybercodered.org/item/cve-cve-2026-74886.html