PYSEC-2026-3772

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...

CVE-2026-74900

openssl_encrypt before version 1.4.0 has a flaw in pqc.py: when KEM decapsulation fails, it silently falls back to simulation mode, deriving a deterministic shared secret from just 16 bytes of the private key plus public encapsulated key data. An attacker with those 16 private-key bytes can compu...