CRITICALVulnerability
CVE-2026-74872
openssl_encrypt versions before 1.4.0 contain an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the Whirlpool hash implementation that uses broad glob patterns to load .so modules without integrity verification. Attackers can place malicious .so files matching the whirlpool*py313*.so pattern in site-packages directories to achieve native code execution when the module is loaded.
Properties
- severity
- CRITICAL
- score
- 9.8
- epss_score
- 0.0046
- cve_id
- CVE-2026-74872
- vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- published_at
- 2026-08-17T11:16:41.560
- last_modified
- 2026-08-31T15:51:05.287
- epss_percentile
- 0.38253
Related Entities (4)
ENRICHED_BY (1)
→[Source]FIRST EPSS
AFFECTS_PRODUCT (1)
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HAS_WEAKNESS (1)
→[Weakness]Untrusted Search Path
DESCRIBED_BY (1)
→[Source]NVD
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