CVE-2025-26623
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 1.1%Exiv2 allows Use After Free
Description
### Impact A heap buffer overflow was found in Exiv2 versions v0.28.0 to v0.28.4. Versions prior to v0.28.0, such as v0.27.7, are **not** affected. Exiv2 is a command-line utility and C++ library for reading, writing, deleting, and modifying the metadata of image files. The heap overflow is triggered when Exiv2 is used to write metadata into a crafted image file. An attacker could potentially exploit the vulnerability to gain code execution, 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. For example, to trigger the bug in the Exiv2 command-line application, you need to add an extra command-line argument such as `fixiso`. ### Patches The bug is fixed in version v0.28.5. ### References Issue: https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/3168 Fix: https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/3174 ### For more information Please see our [security policy](https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/security/policy) for information about Exiv2 security.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/exiv2from 0, < 0.28.4+dfsg-2
- PyPI/exiv2>= 0.28.0, < 0.28.5
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (7)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-26623
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-26623
- PATCHhttps://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2
- WEBhttps://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/3168
- WEBhttps://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/3174
- WEBhttps://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/security/advisories/GHSA-38h4-fx85-qcx7
- WEBhttps://github.com/jim-easterbrook/python-exiv2/commit/4cc875e392f9e0bc705fe03d929b9a382b78dae4