Vulnerability in Sequoia (CVE-2025-67897)
Summary
Vulnerability in Sequoia (CVE-2025-67897). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
In Sequoia before 2.1.0, aes_key_unwrap panics if passed a ciphertext that is too short. A remote attacker can take advantage of this issue to crash an application by sending a victim an encrypted message with a crafted PKESK or SKESK packet.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-67897 has been found in Sequoia.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Sequoia CVE-2025-67897" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2025-67897 (Sequoia) — CWE-195 / CVSS v3 5.3
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-195) exists in Sequoia.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Sequoia.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.3/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Sequoia' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'Sequoia' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
Sequoiaを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-67897 rust-sequoia-openpgp
References
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