CVE-2026-74900 openssl_encrypt before 1.4.0 Weak Shared Secret via PQC Simulation Mode

opensslencrypt versions before 1.4.0 contain a critical vulnerability in pqc.py where KEM decapsulation failures silently fall back to simulation mode, generating a deterministic shared secret from only 16 bytes of the private key and publicly available encapsulated key data. Attackers who obtain...