What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-24826: Out-of-bounds read in QuickTimeVideo::NikonTagsDecoder in Exiv2

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-02-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

Exiv2 is a command-line utility and C++ library for reading, writing, deleting, and modifying the metadata of image files. An out-of-bounds read was found in Exiv2 version v0.28.1. The vulnerable function, `QuickTimeVideo::NikonTagsDecoder`, was new in v0.28.0, so Exiv2 versions before v0.28 are _not_ affected. The out-of-bounds read is triggered when Exiv2 is used to read the metadata of a crafted video file. In most cases this out of bounds read will result in a crash. This bug is fixed in version v0.28.2. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Affected products

• exiv2: 0.28.0, 0.28.1

References

• https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/2337
• https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/security/advisories/GHSA-g9xm-7538-mq8w
• https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/2337
• https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/security/advisories/GHSA-g9xm-7538-mq8w

Get alerted when CVE-2024-24826 or the next vulnerability affects your stack