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.
Published: 2022-02-24
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-0819 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-4v6p-cxf9-98rf Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in metadata-extractor
History

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00056}

epss

{'score': 0.00052}


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Metadata-extractor Project Metadata-extractor
Redhat Jboss Fuse
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T04:13:56.973Z

Reserved: 2022-02-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-24614

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2022-02-24T15:15:29.750

Modified: 2025-09-12T19:46:21.530

Link: CVE-2022-24614

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2022-02-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-24614 - Bugzilla

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