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Advisory details: vulnrichment / CVE-2025-54080
Advisory ID vulnrichment/CVE-2025-54080
Aliases
Summary Exiv2 is a C++ library and a command-line utility to read, write, delete and modify Exif, IPTC, XMP and ICC image metadata. An out-of-bounds read was found in Exiv2 versions 0.28.5 and earlier. The out-of-bounds read is triggered when Exiv2 is used to write metadata into a crafted image file. An attacker could potentially exploit the vulnerability to cause a denial of service by crashing Exiv2, if they can trick the victim into running Exiv2 on a crafted image file. Note that this bug is only triggered when writing the metadata, which is a less frequently used Exiv2 operation than reading the metadata. The bug is fixed in version 0.28.6.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
System Score Found at
cvssv4 1.8
ssvc Track
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/commit/e737332427711f15bcdc4e903203d6b7493eaec0
GHSA-496f-x7cq-cq39 https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/security/advisories/GHSA-496f-x7cq-cq39
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N Found at None
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-08-29T14:58:11Z/ Found at None

Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-08-29T14:58:11Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2025/54xxx/CVE-2025-54080.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2025-54080

View SSVC decision tree 
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 {'Automatable': 'no'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'partial'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]