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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.9 Medium

CVE-2026-81686

openssl_encrypt before 1.4.9 D-Bus Properties Authorization Bypass

Description

openssl_encrypt 1.4.x before 1.4.9 contains an optional D-Bus crypto service whose org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set method performs neither a polkit authorization check nor value validation. Any local user on the system bus can call Set without authorization and set MaxConcurrentOperations (to 0/negative, causing the concurrency gate to refuse all subsequent operations, or to a huge value removing the limit) or the unbounded DefaultTimeout, resulting in a persistent denial of service of the root daemon. The D-Bus service exists only on the 1.4.x line and was removed in 1.5.x.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

jahlives openssl_encrypt

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to < 1.4.9affected
  • 1.4.9unaffected
pkg:pypi/openssl-encrypt

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