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CVE-2026-74896

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.8 Published: 2026-08-17 Modified: 2026-08-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-693

References