CVE-2022-24614
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in metadata-extractor
5.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.28%
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.
How to fix CVE-2022-24614
To remediate CVE-2022-24614, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —no fix listed
- —upgrade to 2.18.0 or later
Is CVE-2022-24614 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.3%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0
- from 0, < 2.18.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | 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 |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |