CVE-2026-81721
High · 7.5CVSS
7.5
EPSS
0.6%
Published
Aug 27, 2026
CISA due date
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The record
openssl_encrypt before 1.4.9 fails to validate KDF cost parameters in encrypted file metadata and keystore headers, allowing attackers to trigger unbounded memory allocation. Attackers can craft malicious encrypted files declaring arbitrarily large Argon2, scrypt, or balloon KDF parameters to exhaust system memory and crash the process without authentication.
Affected packages
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