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Remotely exploitable denial of service in Rosenpass

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Dec 21, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jul 28, 2025

Package

cargo rosenpass (Rust)

Affected versions

< 0.2.1

Patched versions

0.2.1

Description

Affected versions of this crate did not validate the size of buffers when attempting to decode messages.

This allows an attacker to trigger a panic by sending a UDP datagram with a 1 byte payload over network.

This flaw was corrected by validating the size of the buffers before attempting to decode the message.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 21, 2023
Reviewed Dec 21, 2023
Last updated Jul 28, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

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

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(34th percentile)

Weaknesses

Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency

The product parses a formatted message or structure, but it does not handle or incorrectly handles a length field that is inconsistent with the actual length of the associated data. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2023-53157

GHSA ID

GHSA-6ggr-cwv4-g7qg

Source code

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