exiv2 up to 0.28.5 Image Parser out-of-bounds

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in exiv2 up to 0.28.5. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Image Parser. Performing a manipulation results in out-of-bounds. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-54080. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in exiv2 up to 0.28.5. This affects some unknown processing of the component Image Parser. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-125. The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-54080 since 07/16/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 270556 (Fedora 42 : inih / mingw-exiv2 (2025-99df814c62)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 0.28.6 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch e737332427711f15bcdc4e903203d6b7493eaec0 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (270556). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Image Processing Software

Name

• exiv2

Version

• 0.28.0
• 0.28.1
• 0.28.2
• 0.28.3
• 0.28.4
• 0.28.5

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• free

Website

• Product: https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/

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