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🛡️ AZL-66708 — exiv2 (CVE-2025-55304)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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Description

CVE-2025-55304 affecting package exiv2 0.28.3-1

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.

Affected software

AZL-66708 is recorded against 1 package.

  • exiv2

Timeline and source

Published on 29 August 2025 and last revised on 21 April 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Web)

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-08-29
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-04-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
exiv2 — —

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