Use of GET Request Method With Sensitive Query Strings Affecting openssl-encrypt package, versions [,1.4.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.31% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-OPENSSLENCRYPT-19428123
  • published29 Aug 2026
  • disclosed17 Aug 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-74880  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-598  (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 Use of GET Request Method With Sensitive Query Strings in the handling of refresh tokens via URL query parameters in keyserver and telemetry server routes. An attacker can gain unauthorized access by extracting sensitive tokens from server logs, proxy logs, browser history, or HTTP Referer headers.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1