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1 vulnerability by photostructure
CVE-2026-43893 (GCVE-0-2026-43893)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-11 20:59 – Updated: 2026-05-12 12:54
VLAI
Title
exiftool-vendored: Argument injection via newline characters in tag names
Summary
exiftool-vendored provides cross-platform Node.js access to ExifTool. Prior to 35.19.0, exiftool-vendored starts ExifTool in -stay_open True -@ - mode, where arguments are read from stdin one per line. In affected versions, several caller-supplied strings were interpolated into ExifTool arguments without rejecting line delimiters. A newline or carriage return inside one of those strings could split a single intended argument into multiple ExifTool arguments, allowing argument injection. The fix also rejects NUL bytes as unsafe control characters. Applications that pass attacker-controlled strings to affected APIs may allow an attacker to make ExifTool read files accessible to the ExifTool process, or write output to attacker-chosen file system paths accessible to that process. No remote code execution has been demonstrated. This vulnerability is fixed in 35.19.0.
Severity
8.2 (High)
CWE
- CWE-88 - Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/photostructure/exiftool-vendor… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| photostructure | exiftool-vendored.js |
Affected:
< 35.19.0
|
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