Borewit music-metadata up to 11.15.9 ID3v2 Parser allocation of resources

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A vulnerability was found in Borewit music-metadata up to 11.15.9. It has been rated as problematic. This affects an unknown function of the component ID3v2 Parser. This manipulation causes allocation of resources. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2026-107388. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in Borewit music-metadata up to 11.15.9. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function of the component ID3v2 Parser. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a allocation of resources vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-770. The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

music-metadata is a metadata parser for audio and video media files. Prior to 11.16.0, the ID3v2 parser trusts the syncsafe tag-size field and allocates the complete tag body before checking whether the input contains the declared bytes. A truncated file containing only an ID3v2 header can request an allocation approaching 268 MiB; the allocation succeeds, the subsequent read reaches end of stream, the EndOfStreamError is caught internally, and the caller receives a normal metadata object. This issue is fixed in version 11.16.0.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-107388 since 10/07/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 11.16.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Borewit

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• music-metadata

Version

• 11.15.0
• 11.15.1
• 11.15.2
• 11.15.3
• 11.15.4
• 11.15.5
• 11.15.6
• 11.15.7
• 11.15.8
• 11.15.9

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• Product: https://github.com/Borewit/music-metadata/

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