Is CVE-2026-81698 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-81698?

CVE-2026-81698 has a CVSS v3 severity of HIGH (7.5).

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CVE-2026-81698

Description

openssl_encrypt versions before 1.4.9 contain a shell injection vulnerability in the info command's reconstructed CLI block that interpolates untrusted metadata fields without quoting. Attackers can craft metadata values like pepper_name containing shell commands that execute when users copy the printed CLI block into a shell.