CVE-2022-24614

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 5.5

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.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2022-24614

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2022-02-24T15:15:29

Last Modified Date
2022-03-02T18:29:28

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-770	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/770.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:metadata-extractor_project:metadata-extractor::::::::	1	OR		2.16.0

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
MEDIUM

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Integrity Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
PARTIAL

Base Score
4.3

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
8.6

Impact Score
2.9

CVSS Version 3

Version
3.1

Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL

Attack Compatibility
LOW

Privileges Required
NONE

User Interaction
REQUIRED

Scope
UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
HIGH

Base Score
5.5

Base Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
1.8

Impact Score
3.6

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor/issues/561	Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24614
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-24614

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 15:47:36				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-06 10:38:02	2022-02-24T15:15Z	2022-02-24T15:15:29	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-06 10:38:02		2022-03-02T18:29:28	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-06 10:38:02		Analyzed	Vulnerability Status	updated