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CVE-2026-32889: tinytag: Denial of Service via non-terminating SYLT frame parsing loop

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2026-03-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-835

Description

tinytag is a Python library for reading audio file metadata. Version 2.2.0 allows an attacker who can supply MP3 files for parsing to trigger a non-terminating loop while the library parses an ID3v2 SYLT (synchronized lyrics) frame. In server-side deployments that automatically parse attacker-supplied files, a single 498-byte MP3 can cause the parsing operation to stop making progress and remain busy until the worker or process is terminated. The root cause is that _parse_synced_lyrics assumes _find_string_end_pos always returns a position greater than the current offset. That assumption is false when no string terminator is present in the remaining frame content. This issue has been fixed in version 2.2.1.

Affected products

• tinytag: 2.2.0

References

• https://github.com/tinytag/tinytag/commit/44e496310f7ced8077e9087e3774acbaa324b18a
• https://github.com/tinytag/tinytag/commit/4d649b9c314ada8ff8a74e0469e9aadb3acb252a
• https://github.com/tinytag/tinytag/commit/5cd321521ff097e41724b601d7e3d7adc7e53402
• https://github.com/tinytag/tinytag/security/advisories/GHSA-f4rq-2259-hv29

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