Is CVE-2026-74874 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-74874?

CVE-2026-74874 has a CVSS v3 severity of HIGH (7.5).

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CVE-2026-74874

Description

openssl_encrypt versions before 1.4.0 use Python's non-cryptographic random module for steganographic pixel selection in the generate_pseudorandom_sequence function. Attackers who know the password can recover the Mersenne Twister state from approximately 624 outputs and predict pixel locations containing hidden data for extraction.