What is CVE-2024-58261?

CVE-2024-58261 is a low-severity vulnerability in Sequoia-pgp Sequoia, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 2.9/10. Published 2025-07-27.

How severe is CVE-2024-58261?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 2.9 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Sequoia-pgp Sequoia

CVE-2024-58261

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.

EPSS: 0.001 (24.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 2.9 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Sequoia-pgp Sequoia — versions 1.13.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-835 — Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)

References

rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0345.html
gitlab.com/sequoia-pgp/sequoia/-/issues/1106
crates.io/crates/sequoia-openpgp

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-58261?: CVE-2024-58261 is a low-severity vulnerability in Sequoia-pgp Sequoia, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 2.9/10. Published 2025-07-27.
How severe is CVE-2024-58261?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 2.9 out of 10.