HIGHVulnerability
CVE-2026-81721
openssl_encrypt before 1.4.9 fails to validate KDF cost parameters in encrypted file metadata and keystore headers, allowing attackers to trigger unbounded memory allocation. Attackers can craft malicious encrypted files declaring arbitrarily large Argon2, scrypt, or balloon KDF parameters to exhaust system memory and crash the process without authentication.
Properties
- severity
- HIGH
- score
- 7.5
- epss_score
- 0.00393
- cve_id
- CVE-2026-81721
- vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- published_at
- 2026-08-27T17:21:02.650
- last_modified
- 2026-09-02T13:15:35.677
- epss_percentile
- 0.32606
Related Entities (4)
ENRICHED_BY (1)
→[Source]FIRST EPSS
DESCRIBED_BY (1)
→[Source]NVD
AFFECTS_PRODUCT (1)
→[Product]
HAS_WEAKNESS (1)
→[Weakness]Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
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