PYSEC-2026-3772
See a problem?- Import Source
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/openssl-encrypt/PYSEC-2026-3772.yaml
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/PYSEC-2026-3772
- Aliases
-
- CVE-2026-74900
- GHSA-p3gq-pcg9-qvfv
- Published
- 2026-08-17T11:16:45.050Z
- Modified
- 2026-09-02T09:00:05.029715670Z
- Severity
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- 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/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
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openssl_encrypt versions before 1.4.0 contain a critical vulnerability in pqc.py where KEM decapsulation failures silently fall back to simulation mode, generating a deterministic shared secret from only 16 bytes of the private key and publicly available encapsulated key data. Attackers who obtain 16 bytes of the private key can compute the shared secret and decrypt all ciphertext, as the fallback triggers on any KEM failure without raising an error.
- References
Affected packages
PyPI / openssl-encrypt
Package
- Name
- openssl-encrypt
- View open source insights on deps.dev
- Purl
- pkg:pypi/openssl-encrypt
Affected ranges
- Type
- ECOSYSTEM
- Events
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Introduced0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affectedFixed1.4.0
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