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CVE-2024-53857

rPGP Potential Resource Exhaustion when handling Untrusted Messages

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: December 5, 2024 at 03:22 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 08:09 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorRpgp

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Rpgp· Rpgp
60%
v < 0.14.1
Affected range stops below 0.14.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (1)

x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/rpgp/rpgp/security/advisories/GHSA-4grw-m28r-q285

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitAutomatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

7.5HIGHGitHub_M
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-770

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