What is CVE-2023-47466?

CVE-2023-47466 is a low-severity vulnerability in Taglib, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 2.9/10. Published 2025-05-22.

How severe is CVE-2023-47466?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 2.9 out of 10.

NULL pointer dereference in Taglib

CVE-2023-47466

TagLib before 2.0 allows a segmentation violation and application crash during tag writing via a crafted WAV file in which an id3 chunk is the only valid chunk.

Published 2025-05-22 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 2.9 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (21.7th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 22nd percentile — 21.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Taglib — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

github.com/taglib/taglib/issues/1163 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/taglib/taglib/pull/1164 (Patch)
github.com/taglib/taglib/compare/v1.13.1...v2.0 (Patch)
github.com/taglib/taglib/commit/dfa33bec0806cbb45785accb8cc6c2048a7d40cf (Patch)
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-47466?: CVE-2023-47466 is a low-severity vulnerability in Taglib, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 2.9/10. Published 2025-05-22.
How severe is CVE-2023-47466?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 2.9 out of 10.