7.5

CVE-2024-58261: sequoia-pgp sequoia Infinite Loop

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58261DEBIAN-CVE-2024-58261GHSA-9344-p847-qm5c
Published 27-07-2025Last modified 28-07-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-58261 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Infinite Loop vulnerability in sequoia-pgp sequoia. EPSS estimates a 0.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 32.8% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
40/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.40%
0%100%
Low · +0.04 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1reference

Timeline

  1. 27-07-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 28-07-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The sequoia-openpgp crate 1.13.0 before 1.21.0 for Rust allows an infinite loop of "Reading a cert: Invalid operation: Not a Key packet" messages for RawCertParser operations that encounter an unsupported primary key type.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.40%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

33%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.04 pp

From 0.36% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.40%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (gitlab.com)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Sequoia-pgp2 products
Crates.Io1 product
  • sequoia-openpgp≥ 1.13.0, < 1.21.0
Debian1 product
  • rust-sequoia-openpgp< 1.21.0-1
Ubuntu1 product
  • rust-sequoia-openpgpAll versions (No fix recorded)

4 vendors · 5 products

References

8 links