CVE-2025-55304CWE-407

CVE-2025-55304

Medium · published August 29, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00244 · 14.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-407 · Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
Published
2025-08-29T19:15Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
exiv2/exiv2< 0.28.60.28.6
References (4)
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/3333 · [email protected]https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/3335 · [email protected]https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/3345 · [email protected]https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/security/advisories/GHSA-m54q-mm9w-fp6g · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 29 AUG 15:00Z
    Exiv2 has quadratic performance in ICC profile parsing in JpegBase::readMetadata
    cvelistv5