CVE-2026-81685

LOWPre-NVD 3.33.3
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 3.3 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-08-27. The CNA's CVSS baseline 3.3; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: the CNA's CVSS, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
3.3EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.2%CVSS: 3.3Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

openssl_encrypt versions before 1.4.9 fail to sanitize recovery-slot metadata in the desktop GUI, allowing attackers to inject control characters and line separators into the irreversible-removal confirmation dialog. Attackers can craft encrypted files with malicious slot identifiers containing bidi overrides or line-separator characters to forge warning text and deceive users during file removal operations.

CVSS v3
3.3
EG Score
3.3LOWmedium confidence
EG Risk
15
EG Risk 15/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity33% × 45%
The EG Score, 3.3 of 10.
Exploitation0.2% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
15th
KEV
Not listed

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

August 27, 2026

Last Modified

October 1, 2026

References (2)

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-81685(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
PyPI(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
openssl-encrypt0.2.2 ... 1.4.8 (53 versions)
  • every version up to 1.4.9: fixed in 1.4.9
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 13× in last 7d / 48× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 4 repeat rows among the latest 81 are merged into the row they repeat.

  1. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 15th percentile
  2. 2026-10-12 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 15th percentile
  3. 2026-10-12 14:56 UTCEG score recompute
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  7. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 15th percentile
  8. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 15th percentile
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  10. 2026-10-08 17:13 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 15th percentile
  11. 2026-10-08 01:20 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-08 01:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qp5w-w4gh-6jc5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 3.3
  13. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 15th percentile
  14. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 14th percentile
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  16. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 14th percentile
  17. 2026-10-04 19:39 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-04 19:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qp5w-w4gh-6jc5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 3.3
  19. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 14th percentile
  20. 2026-10-02 17:57 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 14th percentile
  21. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 14th percentile
  22. 2026-10-01 15:28 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-01 15:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qp5w-w4gh-6jc5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 3.3
  24. 2026-09-30 20:15 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-09-30 20:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qp5w-w4gh-6jc5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 3.3
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  1. 2026-09-30 15:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 14th percentile
  2. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 14th percentile
  3. 2026-09-27 17:27 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-09-27 17:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qp5w-w4gh-6jc5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 3.3
  5. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 14th percentile
  6. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 14th percentile
  7. 2026-09-24 14:40 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-09-24 14:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qp5w-w4gh-6jc5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 3.3
  9. 2026-09-24 14:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 14th percentile
  10. 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
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  13. 2026-09-21 11:52 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-09-21 11:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qp5w-w4gh-6jc5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 3.3
  15. 2026-09-20 20:16 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
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  17. 2026-09-18 09:04 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-09-18 09:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qp5w-w4gh-6jc5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 3.3
  19. 2026-09-16 14:08 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  20. 2026-09-16 05:15 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
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  22. 2026-09-15 06:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qp5w-w4gh-6jc5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 3.3
  23. 2026-09-15 03:12 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  24. 2026-09-12 03:28 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-09-12 03:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qp5w-w4gh-6jc5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 3.3
  26. 2026-09-11 14:53 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  27. 2026-09-09 00:41 UTCEG score recompute
  28. 2026-09-09 00:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qp5w-w4gh-6jc5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 3.3
  29. 2026-09-08 22:01 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  30. 2026-09-06 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  31. 2026-09-05 16:02 UTCEG score recompute
  32. 2026-09-05 16:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qp5w-w4gh-6jc5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 3.3
  33. 2026-09-05 15:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
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  36. 2026-09-02 13:13 UTCEG score recompute
  37. 2026-09-02 13:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qp5w-w4gh-6jc5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 3.3
  38. 2026-09-01 13:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
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  40. 2026-08-31 21:51 UTCEG score recompute
  41. 2026-08-31 21:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qp5w-w4gh-6jc5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 3.3
  42. 2026-08-30 19:17 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
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  44. 2026-08-28 21:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  45. 2026-08-28 19:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qp5w-w4gh-6jc5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 3.3
  46. 2026-08-27 20:27 UTCEG score recompute
  47. 2026-08-27 20:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qp5w-w4gh-6jc5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 3.3
  48. 2026-08-27 20:18 UTCEG score recompute
  49. 2026-08-27 20:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qp5w-w4gh-6jc5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 3.3
  50. 2026-08-27 17:25 UTCEG score recompute
  51. 2026-08-27 16:47 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 3.3 LOW
  52. 2026-08-27 16:43 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-81685?
CVE-2026-81685 is a low-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 27, 2026. openssl_encrypt versions before 1.4.9 fail to sanitize recovery-slot metadata in the desktop GUI, allowing attackers to inject control characters and line separators into the irreversible-removal confirmation dialog. Attackers can craft encrypted files with malicious slot identifiers containing…
When was CVE-2026-81685 made public?
CVE-2026-81685 was made public on August 12, 2026: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, VulnCheck, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on August 27, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 1, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-81685 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-81685 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (15th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-81685?
CVE-2026-81685 has a CVSS base score of 3.3 (the CNA's own assessment, by vulncheck; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-81685?
A fix for CVE-2026-81685 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-81685 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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