Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 17, 2026
CVE-2026-74886
CVE-2026-74886
Description
openssl_encrypt versions before 1.4.0 contain a plugin sandbox bypass vulnerability where the PluginImportGuard blocks a different set of modules than the AST analyzer's DANGEROUS_MODULES set. Attackers can bypass AST analysis through string obfuscation or encoding to import unblocked dangerous modules like sys, shutil, multiprocessing, importlib, and pickle for arbitrary code execution.
Affected products
1- Range: <1.4.0
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
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