Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 17, 2026

CVE-2026-74896

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 products

Jahlives/openssl_encryptllm-fuzzy
Range: <1.4.0

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

github.com/jahlives/openssl_encrypt/security/advisories/GHSA-w7gr-9g4g-33mxnvd
www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openssl-encrypt-before-sandbox-escape-via-dunder-attribute-traversalnvd

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