CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-118991

Low risk· EPSS 1%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.10%

1th percentile - higher than 1% of all known CVEs

Summary

In CallBackery versions before 0.62.0 for Perl, configuration backups are encrypted with an AES key formed by padding the password with "x" characters and truncating to 32 bytes, with no salt and no key derivation. The first block of a backup holds a 16 hex digit length field, so decrypting one block confirms a password guess at raw AES speed.

Risk Assessment

An attacker who obtains a backup can recover its password by fast offline guessing and with it every credential the backup holds.

Recommendation

Upgrade CallBackery to version 0.62.0 or later and rotate the passwords and credentials contained in existing backups.

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Original NVD description (English source)

CallBackery versions before 0.62.0 for Perl encrypt configuration backups with the padded password as the AES key. getCrypt() pads the backup password with "x" characters and cuts it to 32 bytes to form the AES key, with no salt and no key derivation. The first block of a backup holds a 16 hex digit length field, so decrypting one block confirms a password guess at raw AES speed. An attacker who obtains a backup can recover its password by fast offline guessing, and with it every credential the backup holds.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS