FKIE_CVE-2026-8814

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-05-19 07:16 - Updated: 2026-05-19 15:38
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
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      "value": "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."
    }
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  "id": "CVE-2026-8814",
  "lastModified": "2026-05-19T15:38:48.397",
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