CVE-2024-58265 Unauthenticated Nonce Increment in snow
Attackers can deny message delivery by incrementing nonces in stateful TransportState, affecting Rust applications using the snow crate.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-58265?
CVE-2024-58265 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in mcginty snow, published on 27 Jul 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The snow crate before 0.9.5 for Rust, when stateful TransportState is used, allows incrementing a nonce and thereby denying message delivery.
Weakness: CWE-642
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-58265?
3 open source packages ship an affected version, including snow. It affects 1 product.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
snow crates.io | All versions | 0.9.5 |
snow crates.io | All versions | 0.9.5 |
snow crates.io | From 0.0.0-0 | 0.9.5 |
Products include Mcginty Snow.
How do I fix CVE-2024-58265?
Upgrade snow to 0.9.5 or later.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2024-58265 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-58265 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2024-58265, GHSA-7g9j-g5jg-3vv3, RUSTSEC-2024-0011, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58265.