TI-2024-36050 Aliases CVE-2024-53857 GHSA-4grw-m28r-q285

rPGP Potential Resource Exhaustion when handling Untrusted Messages

LOW 39CWE-770Published 2024-12-05 · Updated 2024-12-05

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · None · High
Fix status: Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-770.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00467 40th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Fixed rpgp (rpgp): 0.14.1pgp (crates.io): 0.14.2

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: Yes
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
rpgp	rpgp	before 0.14.1	0.14.1	Patch available	CNA
—	pgp (crates.io)	before 0.14.2	0.14.2	Patch available	GHSA-4grw-m28r-q285

rpgp Vendorrpgp Affected before 0.14.1 Fixed in 0.14.1 Patch available CNA
pgp (crates.io) Vendor— Affected before 0.14.2 Fixed in 0.14.2 Patch available GHSA-4grw-m28r-q285

CPE names CISA-ADP · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:rpgp:rpgp::::::::	—	—	rpgp

cpe:2.3:a:rpgp:rpgp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·rpgp

Remediation

Fix · CNA rpgp (rpgp) Fixed in 0.14.1
Fix · GHSA-4grw-m28r-q285 pgp (crates.io) Fixed in 0.14.2 Advisory →

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-53857
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-4grw-m28r-q285

References

Advisory 1

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53857

Other 2

TI-2024-36049 rPGP Panics on Malformed Untrusted Input CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5

Sources

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