Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-53160

Low

Published: 28 July 2025

Published
28 July 2025
Modified
06 August 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 2.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0028 51.5th percentile
Risk Priority 6 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-53160 is a low-severity Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) vulnerability in Sequoia-Pgp Sequoia-Openpgp. Its CVSS base score is 2.9 (Low).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004); ranked in the top 48.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1499.004 Application or System Exploitation Impact
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities that can cause an application or system to crash and deny availability to users.
Why these techniques?

Out-of-bounds array access from attacker-controlled input causes application panic, enabling endpoint denial-of-service through application exploitation.

Affected Assets

sequoia-pgp
sequoia-openpgp
≤ 1.1.1 · 1.2.0 — 1.8.1 · 1.9.0 — 1.16.0

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References