Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting openssl-encrypt package, versions [,1.4.0)
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- published6 Apr 2026
- disclosed31 Mar 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 31 Mar 2026
CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-770 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade openssl-encrypt to version 1.4.0 or higher.
Overview
openssl-encrypt is an A package for secure file encryption and decryption based on modern ciphers using heavy-compute-load chaining of hashing and KDF to generate strong encryption password based on users provided password to ensure secure encryption of files
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling due to the use of an in-memory defaultdict for rate limiting in the TOTP authentication. An attacker can bypass rate limiting by distributing authentication attempts across multiple server instances or by restarting the server to reset the rate limit state.