Vulnerability in cryptography (CVE-2026-69247)
Summary
Vulnerability in cryptography (CVE-2026-69247). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Exploitable via pkcs7_decrypt_der. Mitigation: upgrade to 50.0.0 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Summary
pkcs7_decrypt_der, pkcs7_decrypt_pem, and pkcs7_decrypt_smime reported the
outcome of decrypting a RecipientInfo's encryptedKey in several
distinguishable ways, one of which disclosed the exact length recovered from the
RSA operation. The same distinction was also observable by timing. An
application that decrypts attacker-supplied EnvelopedData and reflects the
outcome gives the attacker a Bleichenbacher oracle against the
content-encryption key.
Introduced in 44.0.0. Fixed in 50.0.0.
Details
Decryption ran as: RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 decrypt of encryptedKey → build an AES
cipher from the result → AES-CBC decrypt and PKCS#7 unpad. Each stage failed
differently, with no RFC 3218 mitigation:
- invalid RSA padding →
Decryption failed - valid padding, bad key length →
Invalid key size (N) for AES., disclosingN - correct length, wrong key →
Invalid padding bytes. - the real key → plaintext
Case 1 is reachable only where the linked library lacks implicit rejection:
OpenSSL 3.0 and 3.1, LibreSSL, and BoringSSL. On OpenSSL 3.2+, used in our wheels,
invalid padding instead returns a synthetic plaintext of
pseudorandom length, so the error channel does not distinguish conforming
ciphertexts.
Exploitation requires a service that auto-decrypts untrusted EnvelopedData
matching the victim certificate and answers adaptively at high volume, such as
an S/MIME gateway or mail filter.
Fix
Per RFC 3218, the content-encryption algorithm is now re…
Source: GitHub Security Advisories (Global) NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-69247 has been found in cryptography.
Attackers can target a specific entry point like pkcs7_decrypt_der over the network to misuse the product.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade cryptography to 50.0.0 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "cryptography CVE-2026-69247" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-69247 (cryptography) — CWE-208
Attack surface: pkcs7_decrypt_der / pkcs7_decrypt_pem / pkcs7_decrypt_smime / RecipientInfo
Patched: 50.0.0 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-208) exists in cryptography. Attackers reach the vulnerable code path via pkcs7_decrypt_der.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of cryptography. Attack surface: pkcs7_decrypt_der / pkcs7_decrypt_pem / pkcs7_decrypt_smime / RecipientInfo.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 50.0.0.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'cryptography' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'cryptography' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
cryptographyを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade cryptography to 50.0.0ステージング環境で 50.0.0 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package github.com
- package pypi.org
- web github.com
- web github.com
- web github.com