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Vulnerability · Published Feb 24, 2022 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2022-24613

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the libmetadata-extractor-java package (Debian). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.8% (higher than 56% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.8%top 43.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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 packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12libmetadata-extractor-javano fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2022-24613
Debian:13libmetadata-extractor-javano fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2022-24613
Debian:14libmetadata-extractor-javano fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2022-24613
Mavencom.drewnoakes:metadata-extractor2.18.0GHSA-p5pg-wm9q-8v6r
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlibmetadata-extractor-javano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-24613
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlibmetadata-extractor-javano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-24613
Ubuntu:25.10libmetadata-extractor-javano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-24613
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlibmetadata-extractor-javano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-24613
Ubuntu:26.10libmetadata-extractor-javano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-24613

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
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References