CVE-2024-58261: Low severity (DoS) vulnerability in sequoia-openpgp

June 26, 2024 (updated July 28, 2025)

There is a denial-of-service vulnerability in sequoia-openpgp, our crate providing a low-level interface to our OpenPGP implementation. When triggered, the process will enter an infinite loop.

Many thanks to Andrew Gallagher for disclosing the issue to us.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-9344-p847-qm5c
gitlab.com/sequoia-pgp/sequoia
gitlab.com/sequoia-pgp/sequoia/-/issues/1106
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-58261
rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0345.html

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