Resource exhaustion in Borewit Music-Metadata

CVE-2026-107391

music-metadata is a metadata parser for audio and video media files. In the public development revision introduced after 11.14.0, a development-branch regression in the MP4 stsd sample-description parser allows an attacker-controlled sample-entry size of zero to prevent the StsdAtom.get cursor from advancing while an attacker-controlled entry_count keeps the synchronous loop running. A crafted MP4-family input can block the Node.js event loop and grow the sample-description table until the process is terminated or exhausts memory. The vulnerable change was present on the public master branch but was not included in music-metadata 11.14.0 or any earlier npm release, and version 11.16.0 contains the fix. This issue is fixed in version 11.16.0.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

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CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.2 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

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Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-107391?
CVE-2026-107391 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Borewit Music-Metadata, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.2/10. Published 2026-10-08.
How severe is CVE-2026-107391?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.2 out of 10.