CVE-2024-53857 HIGH

CVE-2024-53857: rPGP Potential Resource Exhaustion when handling Untrusted Messages

Vendor Rpgp
Product rpgp
Weakness CWE-770 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
Published December 5, 2024
Last update December 5, 2024
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CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

rPGP is a pure Rust implementation of OpenPGP. Prior to 0.14.1, rPGP allows attackers to trigger resource exhaustion vulnerabilities in rpgp by providing crafted messages. This affects general message parsing and decryption with symmetric keys.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

December 5, 2024 CVE published
December 5, 2024 Record updated