CVE-2026-74896

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74896

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-74896.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-74896

Aliases

GHSA-w7gr-9g4g-33mx
PYSEC-2026-3771

Published

2026-08-17T11:04:57Z

Modified

2026-09-03T03:48:19Z

Severity

9.3 (Critical) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

openssl_encrypt before 1.4.0 Sandbox Escape via Dunder Attribute Traversal

Details

openssl_encrypt versions before 1.4.0 contain a sandbox escape vulnerability in the DangerousPatternVisitor AST analyzer that fails to detect dunder attribute traversal techniques. Attackers can use class, bases, subclasses(), and globals chains to access restricted functions and execute arbitrary system commands from plugin code.

Database specific

{
    "cna_assigner": "VulnCheck",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-693"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/74xxx/CVE-2026-74896.json"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/jahlives/openssl_encrypt

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/jahlives/openssl_encrypt

Events

Introduced

Fixed

768df5cd1910e349509f07a27eeac6951e0003bf

Database specific

Show details

{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:jahlives:openssl_encrypt:*:*:*:*:*:python:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "1.4.0"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "AFFECTED_FIELD",
        "CPE_RANGE"
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-74896.json"