LOWVulnerability
CVE-2026-74887
openssl_encrypt before 1.4.0 imports Python's non-cryptographic 'random' module (Mersenne Twister PRNG) at line 15 of openssl_encrypt/modules/pqc.py. No direct calls to random.* were present in the code, so no cryptographic operation is currently affected; however, the import creates a hazard that future code could inadvertently use random.randint() instead of a cryptographically secure alternative (secrets/os.urandom), producing predictable values since the Mersenne Twister state can be recovered from approximately 624 outputs. Fixed by removing the import in 1.4.0.
Properties
- severity
- LOW
- score
- 3.7
- epss_score
- 0.00182
- cve_id
- CVE-2026-74887
- vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- published_at
- 2026-08-17T11:16:43.523
- last_modified
- 2026-08-31T15:49:13.423
- epss_percentile
- 0.07867
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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