GHSA-4v6p-cxf9-98rf

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in metadata-extractor

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2022-24614
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS_V4
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.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Maven · com.drewnoakes:metadata-extractorintroduced 0, fixed 2.18.0

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database