CVE-2026-81683

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-81683

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-81683.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-81683

Aliases

GHSA-r8gw-6hfj-98jw

Published

2026-08-27T14:50:48.886Z

Modified

2026-08-30T03:30:19.709958481Z

Severity

8.6 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/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 1.4.9 Plaintext Private Key Storage

Details

openssl_encrypt (pip package openssl-encrypt) versions 1.4.8 and earlier store an mTLS client private key in cleartext within a world-readable (0644) SharedPreferences file via the desktop GUI's Settings screen 'combined certificate and private key' PEM field. A local attacker with file system access can read the exposed private key. Version 1.4.9 writes the PEM to a dedicated 0600 file, keeps only its path in SharedPreferences, and migrates/scrubs existing cleartext values.

Database specific

{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/81xxx/CVE-2026-81683.json",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-312"
    ],
    "cna_assigner": "VulnCheck"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/jahlives/openssl_encrypt

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/jahlives/openssl_encrypt

Events

Introduced

Fixed

39b0a010cae90520f74b7194f61fedd43af04ef8

Database specific

Show details

{
    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "1.4.9"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v1.*

v1.4.0

v1.4.1rc1

v1.4.1rc2

v1.4.2

v1.4.4

v1.4.5

v1.4.6

v1.4.7

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-81683.json"