CVE-2026-74888
openssl_encrypt versions before 1.4.0 use a non-standard PBKDF2 key derivation construction with iterations=1 per call in an outer loop, creating a KDF whose security properties have not been formally analyzed. Attackers can exploit this weakened key derivation to more efficiently crack passwords protecting legacy encrypted files compared to standard PBKDF2 implementations.
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 8.7
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- EPSS probability
- 0.17%
- CWE
- CWE-327
- Published
- 2026-08-17
- Last modified
- 2026-08-17
Affected products
- jahlives openssl_encrypt
- jahlives openssl_encrypt
Weakness type
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