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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2025-54080 json

Exiv2 Segmentation Faults in Exiv2::EpsImage::writeMetadata() via crafted EPS file

published 2025-08-29 14 mo ago modified 2026-10-19 20 d ago also EUVD-2025-26207 , GHSA-496f-x7cq-cq39 , JLSEC-2026-1314 , PYSEC-2026-1354

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 3%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Exiv2 is a C++ library and a command-line utility to read, write, delete and modify Exif, IPTC, XMP and ICC image metadata. An out-of-bounds read was found in Exiv2 versions 0.28.5 and earlier. The out-of-bounds read is triggered when Exiv2 is used to write metadata into a crafted image file. An attacker could potentially exploit the vulnerability to cause a denial of service by crashing Exiv2, if they can trick the victim into running Exiv2 on a crafted image file. Note that this bug is only triggered when writing the metadata, which is a less frequently used Exiv2 operation than reading the metadata. The bug is fixed in version 0.28.6.

Patch / fix

  • exiv2 exiv2 0.28.6
  • jim-easterbrook python-exiv2 0.17.5
  • exiv2 Debian 14 0.28.7+dfsg-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-54080

  • exiv2 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 0.27.5-3ubuntu1.1
  • exiv2 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 0.27.6-1ubuntu0.1
  • exiv2 Ubuntu 25.10 0.28.5+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1
  • exiv2 Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 0.25-2.1ubuntu16.04.7+esm5
  • exiv2 Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.11+esm1
  • exiv2 Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 0.27.2-8ubuntu2.7+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-54080

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • exiv2 SLES for SAP applications 16.0, SLES 16.0 0.28.8-160000.1.1
  • exiv2 SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5 0.23-12.26.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:2663-1SUSE-SU-2026:20923-1

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

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:20410-1openSUSE-SU-2026:10298-1

  • exiv2 Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 0.28.6-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2025-54080

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

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-2025-54080 updated cvss 3.3

exiv2: Exiv2 Segmentation Faults

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 exiv2, exiv2-libs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 exiv2, exiv2-libs, compat-exiv2-023, compat-exiv2-026
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 exiv2, exiv2-libs, compat-exiv2-026 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 exiv2, exiv2-libs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 exiv2
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”

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
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
14 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 1.8 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 1.8 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 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
pypi exiv2
<=0.17.3
 no fix listed
julia Exiv2_jll
all versions
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • Exiv2 exiv2

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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