Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting libimage-exiftool-perl package, versions <13.55+dfsg-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-LIBIMAGEEXIFTOOLPERL-16355100
  • published4 May 2026
  • disclosed1 May 2026

Introduced: 1 May 2026

CVE-2026-7580  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-74  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable libimage-exiftool-perl to version 13.55+dfsg-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libimage-exiftool-perl package and not the libimage-exiftool-perl package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

A vulnerability was detected in Exiftool up to 13.53. Impacted is the function Process_mrld of the file lib/Image/ExifTool/GM.pm of the component JPEG/QuickTime/MOV/MP4. The manipulation of the argument -ee results in code injection. Attacking locally is a requirement. Upgrading to version 13.54 is recommended to address this issue. The patch is identified as 5a8b6b6ead12b39e3f32f978a4efd0233facbb01. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component. The fix in the source code mentions: "[J]ust to be safe, probably never happen".

CVSS Base Scores

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