CVE-2022-24614
MEDIUMmetadata-extractor < 2.18.0 - Denial of Service via Crafted JPEG File
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor/issues/561
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0072
EPSS Percentile
49.0%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-770
Status
published
Products (2)
com.drewnoakes/metadata-extractor
0 - 2.18.0Maven
metadata-extractor_project/metadata-extractor
< 2.18.0
Published
Feb 24, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026