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CVE-2026-81715PYSEC-2026-3964GHSA-JQQP-PF9J-889J

openssl_encrypt before 1.4.9 Credential Exposure via Debug Output

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 (pip package openssl-encrypt) versions <= 1.4.8 do not redact the keyserver bearer token passed as the positional argument to 'keyserver set-token' in the --debug argv dump, because sanitize_argv_for_debug fails to sanitize it. As a result the token is printed in cleartext to stderr under --debug (even without --unsafe-show-secrets), persisting the credential in logs and terminal history. Fixed in 1.4.9.

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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