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

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Proof of concept
    EPSS 0.05% (19th percentile)
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NVD
5.5 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-COMDREWNOAKES-2413663
  • published 13 Sep 2022
  • disclosed 25 Feb 2022
  • credit Zhang Xiaohan, Huang Wenjie, Zhang Cen
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Introduced: 25 Feb 2022

CVE-2022-24614 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-770 Open this link 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.