Vulnerability Bulletins

CVE-2026-74874

   
Affected software OPENSSL
 
openssl_encrypt versions before 1.4.0 use Python's non-cryptographic random module for steganographic pixel selection in the generate_pseudorandom_sequence function. Attackers who know the password can recover the Mersenne Twister state from approximately 624 outputs and predict pixel locations containing hidden data for extraction.

Link:

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-74874