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CVE-2022-24614

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-02-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-770

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 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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