PYSEC-2026-3764

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Import Source
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/openssl-encrypt/PYSEC-2026-3764.yaml
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/PYSEC-2026-3764
Aliases
Published
2026-08-17T11:16:43Z
Modified
2026-09-02T09:00:05Z
Severity
  • 8.7 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

openssl_encrypt versions before 1.4.0 use a non-standard PBKDF2 key derivation construction with iterations=1 per call in an outer loop, creating a KDF whose security properties have not been formally analyzed. Attackers can exploit this weakened key derivation to more efficiently crack passwords protecting legacy encrypted files compared to standard PBKDF2 implementations.

References

Affected packages

PyPI / openssl-encrypt

Package

Name
openssl-encrypt
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Purl
pkg:pypi/openssl-encrypt

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.4.0

Affected versions

0.*
0.2.2
0.2.3
0.2.4
0.2.5
0.2.6
0.3.0
0.3.1
0.3.2
0.3.3
0.4.0
0.4.1
0.4.2
0.4.3
0.4.4
0.5.0
0.5.1
0.5.3
0.6.0rc1
0.7.0rc2
0.7.1
0.7.2
0.8.0
0.8.1
0.8.2
0.9.2
1.*
1.0.0
1.0.1
1.0.2
1.0.3
1.1.0
1.2.0
1.2.1
1.3.0
1.3.1
1.3.2
1.3.3
1.3.4
1.3.5
1.4.0b3
1.4.0b4
1.4.0b5
1.4.0b6
1.4.0b7
1.4.0b8

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/openssl-encrypt/PYSEC-2026-3764.yaml"