CVE-2026-81689
openssl_encrypt versions before 1.4.9 derive the remote-pepper wrap key using unsalted HKDF-SHA256 or bare SHA-256 of the password, allowing identical keys across all users and files. Attackers with access to wrapped pepper blobs can precompute a single dictionary table and perform fleet-wide offline password guessing at hardware speed to recover user passwords.
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
- 0.20%
- CWE
- CWE-916
- Published
- 2026-08-27
- Last modified
- 2026-08-28
Affected products
- jahlives openssl_encrypt
- jahlives openssl_encrypt
Weakness type
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