MEDIUMVulnerability
CVE-2026-74873
openssl_encrypt versions before 1.4.0 expose passwords passed via the --password CLI argument in process listings accessible to all system users. Attackers can read process arguments through ps aux or /proc/[pid]/cmdline to retrieve plaintext passwords and keystore passwords.
Properties
- severity
- MEDIUM
- score
- 5.5
- epss_score
- 0.00227
- cve_id
- CVE-2026-74873
- vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- published_at
- 2026-08-17T11:16:41.690
- last_modified
- 2026-09-01T15:29:11.337
- epss_percentile
- 0.13271
Related Entities (4)
ENRICHED_BY (1)
→[Source]FIRST EPSS
AFFECTS_PRODUCT (1)
→[Product]
HAS_WEAKNESS (1)
→[Weakness]Invocation of Process Using Visible Sensitive Information
DESCRIBED_BY (1)
→[Source]NVD
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