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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2024-25112 json

Denial of service due to unbounded recursion in QuickTimeVideo::multipleEntriesDecoder in Exiv2

published 2024-02-12 2 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also EUVD-2024-0058 , GHSA-crmj-qh74-2r36 , PYSEC-2024-107

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 12%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Exiv2 is a command-line utility and C++ library for reading, writing, deleting, and modifying the metadata of image files. A denial-of-service was found in Exiv2 version v0.28.1: an unbounded recursion can cause Exiv2 to crash by exhausting the stack. The vulnerable function, `QuickTimeVideo::multipleEntriesDecoder`, was new in v0.28.0, so Exiv2 versions before v0.28 are _not_ affected. The denial-of-service is triggered when Exiv2 is used to read the metadata of a crafted video file. This bug is fixed in version v0.28.2. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Patch / fix

  • pypi exiv2 0.16.1
  • exiv2 exiv2 0.28.2
  • jim-easterbrook python-exiv2 0.16.1
  • exiv2 Debian 14, Debian 13 0.28.3+dfsg-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-25112

  • exiv2 SLES for SAP applications 16.0, SLES 16.0 0.28.8-160000.1.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:20923-1

  • exiv2 openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.28.8-160000.1.1
  • exiv2 openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.28.2-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:20410-1openSUSE-SU-2024:13731-1

  • exiv2 Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +3 more 0.28.2-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2024-25112

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • exiv2 Azure Linux 3.0 0.28.3-1

azure linux advisories AZL-42558

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

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-2024-25112 updated cvss 5.5

Exiv2: Denial of service due to unbounded recursion in QuickTimeVideo::multipleEntriesDecoder

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 exiv2, exiv2-libs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 exiv2, exiv2-libs, compat-exiv2-023, compat-exiv2-026 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 exiv2, exiv2-libs, compat-exiv2-026 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 exiv2, exiv2-libs
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 5.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 5.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi exiv2
>=0.16.0, <0.16.1
0.16.1

Affected products

  • Exiv2 exiv2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion

References

Sources

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