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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2022-24614 json

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in metadata-extractor

published 2022-02-24 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-4v6p-cxf9-98rf , EUVD-2022-0819

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 54%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • maven com.drewnoakes:metadata-extractor 2.18.0
  • metadata-extractor_project metadata-extractor 2.18.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-24614 updated cvss 5.5

metadata-extractor: Out-of-memory when reading a specially crafted JPEG file

  • Red Hat BPM Suite 6 metadata-extractor metadata-extractor
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 metadata-extractor metadata-extractor Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus 1 metadata-extractor metadata-extractor
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 metadata-extractor metadata-extractor Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 metadata-extractor metadata-extractor Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 metadata-extractor metadata-extractor Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 metadata-extractor metadata-extractor Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 metadata-extractor metadata-extractor
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Fuse 7.11
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:5532

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.73% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 54% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor/issues/561 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven com.drewnoakes:metadata-extractor
<2.18.0
2.18.0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

Sources

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