CVE-2026-71225

Medium

Description

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.5
Exploit probability—
ProductSmuellerdd Libkcapi
PublishedAug 5, 2026
First seenAug 5, 2026
Weakness typeCWE-330CWE-330

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
smuellerdd libkcapi0.10.1 ≤ v < 1.5.11.5.1
redhat hardened_imagesNo range specified—
redhat openshift_container_platform4.0—
redhat enterprise_linux8.0, 9.0, 10.0—

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