CVE-2026-71225CWE-330

CVE-2026-71225

Medium · published August 5, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
43.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A flaw was found in libkcapi. When performing one-shot symmetric cipher operations on large inputs (over 64 KiB) in stateful modes such as Counter (CTR) or Cipher Block Chaining (CBC), the library improperly reuses the Initialization Vector (IV) for each internal data chunk. A remote attacker could potentially exploit this by making an application that uses libkcapi process specially crafted large inputs. This can lead to a significant weakening of data confidentiality, as the repeated IV use can expose relationships in encrypted plaintext, and may also affect data integrity by causing incorrect cryptographic processing.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00521 · 43.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-330 · Use of Insufficiently Random Values
Published
2026-08-05T17:24Z
Affected products (6)
ProductVersionsFixed in
redhat/hardened_imagesall versions—
redhat/openshift_container_platformall versions—
smuellerdd/libkcapi≥ 0.10.1, < 1.5.11.5.1
redhat/enterprise_linuxall versions—
redhat/enterprise_linuxall versions—
redhat/enterprise_linuxall versions—
References (8)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 AUG 12:16Z
    Libkcapi: iv reuse in libkcapi one-shot symmetric cipher chunking causes cipher state reset across chunk boundaries
    cvelistv5