CVE-2022-24613

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-02-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-755

Description

metadata-extractor up to 2.16.0 can throw various uncaught exceptions while parsing a specially crafted JPEG file, which could result in an application crash. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use metadata-extractor library.

Affected products

Metadata-Extractor Project Metadata-Extractor: before 2.18.0 — fixed in 2.18.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Metadata-Extractor Project Metadata-Extractor 2.18.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor/issues/561
https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor/issues/561

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