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CVE-2026-71225

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.5 Published: 2026-08-05 Modified: 2026-08-11

Description

A flaw was found in libkcapi. When performing one-shot symmetric cipher operations on large inputs (over 64 KiB) in stateful modes such as Counter (CTR) or Cipher Block Chaining (CBC), the library improperly reuses the Initialization Vector (IV) for each internal data chunk. A remote attacker could potentially exploit this by making an application that uses libkcapi process specially crafted large inputs. This can lead to a significant weakening of data confidentiality, as the repeated IV use can expose relationships in encrypted plaintext, and may also affect data integrity by causing incorrect cryptographic processing.

Affected Platforms

Redhat Hardened ImagesSmuellerdd LibkcapiRedhat Enterprise LinuxRedhat Openshift Container Platform

Weakness Type

CWE-330

References