CVE-2026-81701Critical· 9.8▾ Midnightopenssl_encrypt versions before 1.4.9 use a denylist to identify trusted built-in plugins, allowing unsigned plugins in top-level plugins/ directories and unknown subdirectories to bypass signature verification. Attackers can place malic…
▾ Midnight zone — Critical, or high with PoC / in-the-wild
impact 53.9 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 0
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Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization from CISA's ADP record at CVE.org: whether exploitation is observed, whether an attack can be automated, and how much of the system is at stake. The CVSS score shown above comes from the assigning CNA record, not NVD.
Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Sep 2.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via CVEORG
0.3%
0.3% → 0.4%
Last analysed / modified upstream
— → 9.8
none → critical
openssl_encrypt versions before 1.4.9 use a denylist to identify trusted built-in plugins, allowing unsigned plugins in top-level plugins/ directories and unknown subdirectories to bypass signature verification. Attackers can place malicious unsigned plugins following documented installation paths to achieve arbitrary code execution in the CLI process with access to passwords and cryptographic keys.
openssl_encrypt < 1.4.9Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.
Affected packages:
openssl-encrypt < 1.4.9Patched in:
openssl-encrypt 1.4.9Field changes observed since this record was first indexed.
Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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