drewnoakes/metadata-extractor

drewnoakes/metadata-extractor

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Extracts Exif, IPTC, XMP, ICC and other metadata from image, video and audio files

CVE History

CVEPublishedCVSS v3CVSS v2
5.5 MEDIUM4.3 MEDIUM

metadata-extractor up to 2.16.0 can throw various uncaught exceptions while parsing a specially crafted JPEG file, which could result in an application crash. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use metadata-extractor library.

5.5 MEDIUM4.3 MEDIUM

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.