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THREAT OPSThreat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-71225 (MEDIUM 6.5) — 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 re

[NVD] CVE-2026-71225 (MEDIUM 6.5) — 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 re

mednvdPublished 2026-08-05

CVE-2026-71225 CVSS: 6.5 MEDIUM Published: 2026-08-05T13:24:47.087

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 maki

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Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-71225