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Advisory details: vulnrichment / CVE-2025-55304
Advisory ID vulnrichment/CVE-2025-55304
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. A denial-of-service was found in Exiv2 version 0.28.5: a quadratic algorithm in the ICC profile parsing code in jpegBase::readMetadata() can cause Exiv2 to run for a long time. The denial-of-service is triggered when Exiv2 is used to read the metadata of a crafted jpg image file. 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-407 Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
System Score Found at
cvssv4 1.8
ssvc Track
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/3333
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/3335
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/3345
GHSA-m54q-mm9w-fp6g https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/security/advisories/GHSA-m54q-mm9w-fp6g
No exploits are available.

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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:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-08-29T15:26:15Z/ Found at None

Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-08-29T15:26:15Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2025/55xxx/CVE-2025-55304.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2025-55304

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[{'Exploitation': 'none'},
 {'Automatable': 'no'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'partial'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]