CVE-2026-50268
### Summary Configuring `encrypt:rsa:algorithm=OAEP` does not enable OAEP encryption. Due to an incorrect BouncyCastle transformation string, the `OAEP` setting selects PKCS#1 v1.5, which is the same algorithm as the `DEFAULT` setting. ### Impact Operators who configure `encrypt:rsa:algorithm=OAEP` to obtain CCA2-secure padding receive PKCS#1 v1.5 instead. Currently, `Decrypt()` is called only against operator-controlled configuration data, so no exploitable path exists, but any future code path that exposes a decryption oracle would be Bleichenbacher-vulnerable despite the `OAEP` setting. ### Migration note Existing `{cipher}` values produced under the broken `OAEP` setting were encrypted with PKCS#1 v1.5. The fix makes `OAEP` use actual OAEP padding, so those values will fail to decrypt after upgrading. Re-encrypt all affected `{cipher}` values after upgrading.
Properties
- summary
- Steeltoe: OAEP setting silently selects PKCS#1 v1.5 padding
- severity
- low
- epss_score
- 0.00047
- cvss_score
- 1.9
- ghsa_published
- 2026-07-02T20:32:21Z
- source_url
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4j9m-h44m-2hv8
- ghsa_updated
- 2026-07-02T20:32:23Z
- ghsa_id
- GHSA-4j9m-h44m-2hv8
- cve_id
- CVE-2026-50268
- cvss_vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- is_ghsa_only
- false
- epss_percentile
- 0
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