MEDIUMVulnerability
CVE-2026-81684
In openssl_encrypt (pip package openssl-encrypt) versions <= 1.4.8, the desktop GUI passes the steganography password to the CLI child process on the command line via the --stego-password argument (on both encrypt and decrypt paths) instead of via an environment variable as done for the main password. Any local user can read the steganography password from /proc/<pid>/cmdline for the lifetime of the subprocess. Fixed in 1.4.9.
Properties
- severity
- MEDIUM
- score
- 6.2
- epss_score
- 0.00123
- cve_id
- CVE-2026-81684
- vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- published_at
- 2026-08-27T17:20:57.957
- last_modified
- 2026-09-03T15:07:41.270
- epss_percentile
- 0.02352
Related Entities (4)
ENRICHED_BY (1)
→[Source]FIRST EPSS
HAS_WEAKNESS (1)
→[Weakness]Invocation of Process Using Visible Sensitive Information
DESCRIBED_BY (1)
→[Source]NVD
AFFECTS_PRODUCT (1)
→[Product]
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