CRITICALVulnerability
CVE-2026-74878
openssl_encrypt versions before 1.4.0 use an in-memory rate limiter for TOTP brute-force protection that is not shared across workers and is lost on server restart. Attackers can distribute authentication attempts across multiple server instances or retry immediately after a restart to bypass rate limiting protections.
Properties
- severity
- CRITICAL
- score
- 9.8
- epss_score
- 0.00398
- cve_id
- CVE-2026-74878
- vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- published_at
- 2026-08-17T11:16:42.330
- last_modified
- 2026-09-01T15:28:31.117
- epss_percentile
- 0.32996
Related Entities (4)
ENRICHED_BY (1)
→[Source]FIRST EPSS
AFFECTS_PRODUCT (1)
→[Product]
HAS_WEAKNESS (1)
→[Weakness]Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
DESCRIBED_BY (1)
→[Source]NVD
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