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CVE-2026-118767

4.8 MEDIUMpublic exploit available

Published 2026-10-29 · Updated 2026-10-29

AI analysis for this CVE has not been generated yet. Raw NVD data is shown below.

NVD description

Botan is a C++ cryptography library. From 1.11.22 until 3.13.0, Botan's Python binding converted Python strings containing U+0000 to const char* values without consistently rejecting the embedded NUL, causing bcrypt and check_bcrypt to process only the prefix before the NUL. Applications could validate a longer password but hash a shorter effective value, allowing application password-policy bypass; scrypt and argon2 are unaffected. This issue is fixed in version 3.13.0.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses

CWE-158

Public exploit & PoC references

All references

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