CVE-2024-53857 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2024-53857

rPGP Potential Resource Exhaustion when handling Untrusted Messages

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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CVE-2024-53856
rPGP Panics on Malformed Untrusted Input
High 7.5

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

rpgp
Vulnerable Versions:
< 0.14.1

Timeline

Official Publish: December 5th, 2024
Last Modified: December 5th, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-770

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service
Impact
T1498 Network Denial of Service
Impact
T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1562 Impair Defenses
Defense Evasion
T1046 Network Service Discovery
Discovery