Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting com.drewnoakes:metadata-extractor package, versions [,2.18.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.05% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-COMDREWNOAKES-2413663
  • published13 Sept 2022
  • disclosed25 Feb 2022
  • creditZhang Xiaohan, Huang Wenjie, Zhang Cen

Introduced: 25 Feb 2022

CVE-2022-24614  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade com.drewnoakes:metadata-extractor to version 2.18.0 or higher.

Overview

com.drewnoakes:metadata-extractor is a Java library for reading metadata from image files.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via a specially crafted JPEG file, that when read can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out-of-memory error even for very small inputs.

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