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CVE-2026-74896

openssl_encrypt

Description

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.

CVSS 9.8EPSS 0.337%Risk 1.01
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Published
2026-08-17 11:16:44
Affected versions
<1.4.0
Type
Library
Last modified
2026-08-17 15:16:59
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H