Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data Affecting openssl-encrypt package, versions [,1.4.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-OPENSSLENCRYPT-15916839
  • published6 Apr 2026
  • disclosed1 Apr 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Apr 2026

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-201  (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 Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data via the ready endpoint in the server. An attacker can obtain sensitive database error information, including hostnames, IP addresses, connection parameters, driver versions, and potentially credentials, by sending unauthenticated requests and receiving detailed exception messages in the response.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1