CVE-2025-55304 - CVE House
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Status published Low CVE-2025-55304

Exiv2 has quadratic performance in ICC profile parsing in JpegBase::readMetadata

Vulnerability Description

Exiv2 is a C++ library and a command-line utility to read, write, delete and modify Exif, IPTC, XMP and ICC image metadata. A denial-of-service was found in Exiv2 version 0.28.5: a quadratic algorithm in the ICC profile parsing code in jpegBase::readMetadata() can cause Exiv2 to run for a long time. The denial-of-service is triggered when Exiv2 is used to read the metadata of a crafted jpg image file. The bug is fixed in version 0.28.6.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

exiv2
Vulnerable Versions:
< 0.28.6

Timeline

Official Publish: August 29th, 2025
Last Modified: August 29th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-407

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.