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GHSA-v6x3-9r38-r27q CVE-2025-67897 RUSTSEC-2025-0136

Sequoia PGP has Subtraction Overflow when aes_key_unwrap function is provided ciphertext that is too short

Medium crates.io
Severity
5.3 / 10
Medium · CVSS 3.1
Exploit chance (EPSS)
0.35%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 29.16% of scored vulnerabilities.
Known exploited
No
Not in CISA's catalog
Weakness
CWE-195 Signed to Unsigned Conversion Error
Fix
2.1.0
Upgrade sequoia-openpgp to this version or later

Description

In Sequoia before 2.1.0, aes_key_unwrap panics if passed a ciphertext that is too short. A remote attacker can take advantage of this issue to crash an application by sending a victim an encrypted message with a crafted PKESK or SKESK packet.

Affected versions

crates.io

PackageVulnerableFixed in
sequoia-openpgp
< 2.1.0
2.1.0
sequoia-openpgp
>= 0.0.0-0, < 2.1.0
2.1.0

How to fix

Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.

sequoia-openpgp crates.io → 2.1.0

cargo
cargo update -p sequoia-openpgp --precise 2.1.0

Severity breakdown

CVSS 3.1 5.3

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

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Weakness

CWE-195: Signed to Unsigned Conversion Error

The product uses a signed primitive and performs a cast to an unsigned primitive, which can produce an unexpected value if the value of the signed primitive can not be represented using an unsigned primitive.

References

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. Last updated by the source
  3. Latest EPSS score
AdvisorySeverityWhy it's related
GHSA-9344-p847-qm5c
Low severity (DoS) vulnerability in sequoia-openpgp
High Also affects sequoia-openpgp
GHSA-25mx-8f3v-8wh7
sequoia-openpgp vulnerable to out-of-bounds array access leading to panic
Medium Also affects sequoia-openpgp
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