CVE-2026-81721 openssl_encrypt before 1.4.9 Denial of Service via KDF

opensslencrypt before 1.4.9 fails to validate KDF cost parameters in encrypted file metadata and keystore headers, allowing attackers to trigger unbounded memory allocation. Attackers can craft malicious encrypted files declaring arbitrarily large Argon2, scrypt, or balloon KDF parameters to...

CVE-2026-81721

openssl_encrypt before 1.4.9 fails to validate KDF cost parameters (Argon2, scrypt, or balloon) in encrypted file metadata and keystore headers. An unauthenticated attacker over the network can craft a malicious encrypted file declaring arbitrarily large KDF parameters, triggering unbounded memor...