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CVE-2022-24614

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.7%

Medium (5.5) in metadata-extractor project metadata-extractor. EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in com.drewnoakes:metadata-extractor 2.18.0.

When reading a specially crafted JPEG file, metadata-extractor up to 2.16.0 can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out-of-memory error even for very small inputs. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use metadata-extractor library.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 54% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-770
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-4v6p-cxf9-98rfMavencom.drewnoakes:metadata-extractor<2.18.02.18.0

References

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