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Vulnerability · Published Feb 24, 2022 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2022-24614

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 0.7% (higher than 54% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.7%top 45.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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 packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12libmetadata-extractor-javano fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2022-24614
Debian:13libmetadata-extractor-javano fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2022-24614
Debian:14libmetadata-extractor-javano fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2022-24614
Mavencom.drewnoakes:metadata-extractor2.18.0GHSA-4v6p-cxf9-98rf
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlibmetadata-extractor-javano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-24614
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlibmetadata-extractor-javano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-24614
Ubuntu:25.10libmetadata-extractor-javano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-24614
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlibmetadata-extractor-javano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-24614
Ubuntu:26.10libmetadata-extractor-javano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-24614

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
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References