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CVE-2026-81704PYSEC-2026-3963GHSA-V9R6-GRCH-FXW7

openssl_encrypt before 1.4.9 Weak Key Derivation via D-Bus

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.4.9
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

openssl_encrypt versions before 1.4.9 contain a weak key derivation vulnerability in the D-Bus CryptoService.EncryptFile handler that uses unstretched SHA-256 instead of Argon2id. Attackers can perform offline password guessing against encrypted files roughly six to seven orders of magnitude faster than documented protection by exploiting the missing key stretching and hash rounds.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • jahlives openssl_encrypt

    fixed in 1.4.9

  • openssl-encryptPyPI

    fixed in 1.4.9

References 2

GitHub · jahlives/openssl_encrypt

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