{"schema":"voidly-atlas-federal-record/v1","dataset":"nvd-cves","agency":"NIST","source":"NIST National Vulnerability Database","provider":"Voidly","license":"Source data is U.S. federal public domain (17 U.S.C. §105). Re-surfaced by Voidly under CC BY 4.0.","disclaimer":"This is the agency's own public-domain data, curated and made citable by Voidly. Voidly adds no independent claim — always verify against the linked canonical source.","generated_at":"2026-09-05T12:57:07.280Z","record":{"id":"CVE-2026-8721","cve_id":"CVE-2026-8721","published":"2026-05-17T19:16:25.310","last_modified":"2026-05-17T22:16:21.370","status":"Received","description":"Crypt::OpenSSL::PKCS12 versions through 1.94 for Perl truncates passwords with embedded NULLs.\n\nPassword parameters in PKCS12.xs are declared char *, which routes through Perl's default typemap to SvPV_nolen.  The Perl length is discarded.\n\nThe C code (or OpenSSL internally) calls strlen() on the buffer.  Any password byte at or after the first NULL is silently dropped. Binary / KDF-derived / HMAC-derived passwords lose entropy without any warnings.","cvss_score":null,"cvss_severity":null,"cvss_vector":null,"cwes":"CWE-170","cpe_count":0,"source_url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8721","voidly_url":"https://voidly.ai/atlas/federal/nvd-cves/CVE-2026-8721"},"citation":{"voidly_url":"https://voidly.ai/atlas/federal/nvd-cves/CVE-2026-8721","source_url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8721","recommended":"CVE-2026-8721 — CVE. NIST, via Voidly Atlas — Surveillance & Digital-Rights Watch. Retrieved 2026-09-05, https://voidly.ai/atlas/federal/nvd-cves/CVE-2026-8721","ris":"TY  - DATA\nTI  - CVE-2026-8721 — CVE\nAU  - Voidly\nT2  - Voidly Atlas — Surveillance & Digital-Rights Watch\nPB  - Voidly\nPY  - 2026\nUR  - https://voidly.ai/atlas/federal/nvd-cves/CVE-2026-8721\nN1  - Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8721. Public domain (17 U.S.C. §105); re-surfaced under CC BY 4.0\nER  - ","apa":"Voidly. (2026). CVE-2026-8721 — CVE [NIST National Vulnerability Database]. Voidly Atlas. Retrieved 2026-09-05, from https://voidly.ai/atlas/federal/nvd-cves/CVE-2026-8721","bibtex":"@misc{voidly_nvd_cves_CVE20268721,\n  title        = {CVE-2026-8721 — CVE},\n  author       = {{Voidly}},\n  howpublished = {\\url{https://voidly.ai/atlas/federal/nvd-cves/CVE-2026-8721}},\n  note         = {Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8721. Public domain (17 U.S.C. §105); re-surfaced under CC BY 4.0},\n  urldate      = {2026-09-05},\n  year         = {2026}\n}"}}