SARA / Free Tools / CVE / CVE-2023-53160

CVE-2023-53160 — The sequoia-openpgp crate before 1

The sequoia-openpgp crate before 1.16.0 for Rust allows out-of-bounds array access and a panic.

CVSS

2.9 LOW

EPSS

0.04% (top 86.70%)

CWE

CWE-125

Published

2025-07-28T00:00:00.000Z

Last modified

2025-07-28T13:53:39.946Z

CVSS vector

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

01What is this vulnerability?

The sequoia-openpgp crate before 1.16.0 for Rust allows out-of-bounds array access and a panic.

Vendor	Product	Versions
sequoia-pgp	sequoia	0, 1.2.0, 1.9.0

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

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No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

crates.io — https://crates.io/crates/sequoia-openpgp
rustsec.org — https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0038.html
github.com — https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-25mx-8f3v-8wh7
lists.sequoia-pgp.org — https://lists.sequoia-pgp.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thr…

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