GHSA-m54q-mm9w-fp6g
Suggest an improvement- Source
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m54q-mm9w-fp6g
- Import Source
- https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/08/GHSA-m54q-mm9w-fp6g/GHSA-m54q-mm9w-fp6g.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-m54q-mm9w-fp6g
- Aliases
- Published
- 2025-08-29T14:59:37Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-29T21:37:15.649530Z
- Severity
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- 1.8 (Low) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- Exiv2 has quadratic performance in ICC profile parsing in JpegBase::readMetadata
- Details
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Impact
A denial-of-service was found in Exiv2 version v0.28.5: a quadratic algorithm in the ICC profile parsing code in
jpegBase::readMetadata()can cause Exiv2 to run for a long time. Exiv2 is a command-line utility and C++ library for reading, writing, deleting, and modifying the metadata of image files. The denial-of-service is triggered when Exiv2 is used to read the metadata of a crafted jpg image file.Patches
The bug is fixed in version v0.28.6.
References
Issue: https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/3333 Fixes: https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/3335 (main branch), https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/3345 (0.28.x branch)
For more information
Please see our security policy for information about Exiv2 security.
- Database specific
{ "github_reviewed": true, "github_reviewed_at": "2025-08-29T14:59:37Z", "nvd_published_at": "2025-08-29T15:15:35Z", "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-407" ], "severity": "LOW" }- References
Affected packages
PyPI / exiv2
Package
- Name
- exiv2
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- Purl
- pkg:pypi/exiv2