FKIE_CVE-2026-8814

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-05-19 07:16 - Updated: 2026-07-23 20:10
Severity
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Summary
Versions of the package exifreader before 4.39.0 are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) due to decompressing PNG zTXt metadata without enforcing a built-in maximum decompressed output size. When asynchronous parsing is enabled, a crafted PNG file containing a highly compressed zTXt chunk can cause ExifReader to materialize a disproportionately large Comment value in memory.
References
report@snyk.iohttps://gist.github.com/yuki-matsuhashi/cad1a45d936062438b4ab24613c34c55
report@snyk.iohttps://github.com/mattiasw/ExifReader/commit/5f116128adc19f674902f8bf582bfe7dd0a36375
report@snyk.iohttps://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-EXIFREADER-16689340
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-EXIFREADER-16689340
Impacted products
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          "vendor": "n/a",
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    },
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      "value": "Versiones del paquete exifreader anteriores a la 4.39.0 son vulnerables a un Manejo Inadecuado de Datos Altamente Comprimidos (Amplificaci\u00f3n de Datos) debido a la descompresi\u00f3n de metadatos PNG zTXt sin aplicar un tama\u00f1o m\u00e1ximo de salida descomprimida incorporado. Cuando el an\u00e1lisis as\u00edncrono est\u00e1 habilitado, un archivo PNG manipulado que contiene un fragmento zTXt altamente comprimido puede hacer que ExifReader materialice un valor de Comentario desproporcionadamente grande en la memoria."
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  "lastModified": "2026-07-23T20:10:00.130",
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