HIGHVulnerability
CVE-2026-74874
openssl_encrypt versions before 1.4.0 use Python's non-cryptographic random module for steganographic pixel selection in the generate_pseudorandom_sequence function. Attackers who know the password can recover the Mersenne Twister state from approximately 624 outputs and predict pixel locations containing hidden data for extraction.
Properties
- severity
- HIGH
- score
- 7.5
- epss_score
- 0.00255
- cve_id
- CVE-2026-74874
- vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- published_at
- 2026-08-17T11:16:41.813
- last_modified
- 2026-09-01T15:29:02.317
- epss_percentile
- 0.1682
Related Entities (4)
ENRICHED_BY (1)
→[Source]FIRST EPSS
AFFECTS_PRODUCT (1)
→[Product]
HAS_WEAKNESS (1)
→[Weakness]Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)
DESCRIBED_BY (1)
→[Source]NVD
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