What is CVE-2024-58262?

CVE-2024-58262 is a low-severity vulnerability in Dalek Curve25519-Dalek, classified under CWE-733. CVSS score: 2.9/10. Published 2025-07-27.

How severe is CVE-2024-58262?

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

Vulnerability in Dalek Curve25519-Dalek

CVE-2024-58262

The curve25519-dalek crate before 4.1.3 for Rust has a constant-time operation on elliptic curve scalars that is removed by LLVM.

Published 2025-07-27 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (5.7th percentile), scored 2026-10-20.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 6th percentile — 5.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Dalek Curve25519-Dalek
Dalek-Cryptography Curve25519-Dalek — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-733

References

rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0344.html (Third Party Advisory)
github.com/dalek-cryptography/curve25519-dalek/pull/659 (Patch, Issue Tracking)
crates.io/crates/curve25519-dalek (Product)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-58262?: CVE-2024-58262 is a low-severity vulnerability in Dalek Curve25519-Dalek, classified under CWE-733. CVSS score: 2.9/10. Published 2025-07-27.
How severe is CVE-2024-58262?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 2.9 out of 10.