What is CVE-2022-24614?

CVE-2022-24614 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Metadata-Extractor Project, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2022-02-24.

How severe is CVE-2022-24614?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2022-24614 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Resource exhaustion in Metadata-Extractor Project

CVE-2022-24614

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.

EPSS: 0.007 (50.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Metadata-extractor_project Metadata-extractor
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cvemon

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-24614?: CVE-2022-24614 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Metadata-Extractor Project, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2022-02-24.
How severe is CVE-2022-24614?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-24614 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.