drewnoakes/metadata-extractor · Security
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in metadata-extractor
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-4v6p-cxf9-98rf
- CVE ID
- CVE-2022-24614
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 5.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 5.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v4
- 7.1 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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.
CWEs
- CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24614 ↗
- https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor/issues/561 ↗
- https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor/pull/570 ↗
- https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor/commit/85ec243df54133a87f9d928d2278595f52b07519 ↗
- https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor/releases/tag/2.18.0 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4v6p-cxf9-98rf ↗