CVE-2022-24614

MEDIUM

metadata-extractor < 2.18.0 - Denial of Service via Crafted JPEG File

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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