GHSA-j466-q253-mxp8Critical

openssl_encrypt before 1.4.0 imports Python's non-cryptographic 'random' module (Mersenne Twister...

Published
August 17, 2026
Last Modified
August 17, 2026

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📋 Description

openssl_encrypt before 1.4.0 imports Python's non-cryptographic 'random' module (Mersenne Twister PRNG) at line 15 of openssl_encrypt/modules/pqc.py. No direct calls to random.* were present in the code, so no cryptographic operation is currently affected; however, the import creates a hazard that future code could inadvertently use random.randint() instead of a cryptographically secure alternative (secrets/os.urandom), producing predictable values since the Mersenne Twister state can be recovered from approximately 624 outputs. Fixed by removing the import in 1.4.0.

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