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TI-2025-33923 Aliases CVE-2025-54080GHSA-496f-x7cq-cq39

Exiv2 Segmentation Faults in Exiv2::EpsImage::writeMetadata() via crafted EPS file

Priority MEDIUM 43CWE-125Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Local
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Active
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
Present
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · Low
Fix status
Partial Red Hat: 5 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00143 3rd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Partial exiv2 (Exiv2): 0.28.6Red Hat: 5 without a fix

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
Exiv2exiv2before 0.28.60.28.6Patch availableCNA
—Exiv2 (PyPI)up to 0.17.3—No fix listedGHSA-496f-x7cq-cq39
  • exiv2 VendorExiv2 Affected before 0.28.6 Fixed in 0.28.6 Patch available CNA
  • Exiv2 (PyPI) Vendor— Affected up to 0.17.3 Fixed in — No fix listed GHSA-496f-x7cq-cq39

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:exiv2:exiv2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 0.28.6VulnerableExiv2
  • cpe:2.3:a:exiv2:exiv2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 0.28.6 Vulnerable ·Exiv2

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA exiv2 (Exiv2) Fixed in 0.28.6

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Low. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10AffectedNo fix yet: Fix deferred
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8AffectedNo fix yet: Fix deferred
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9AffectedNo fix yet: Fix deferred

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-54080
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-496f-x7cq-cq39

References

Patch 1

Advisory 2

Other 1

  • TI-2020-13478 Buffer Overflow vulnerability in tEXtToDataBuf function in pngimage.cpp in Exiv2 0.27.1… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
  • TI-2025-19560 Use After Free in Exiv2 CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 5.3
  • TI-2020-13491 An uncontrolled memory allocation in DataBufdata(subBox.length-sizeof(box)) function of… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
  • TI-2018-08245 Exiv2 0.26 has a heap-based buffer overflow in getData in preview.cpp. CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2019-06608 An issue was discovered in Exiv2 0.27. CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2019-06607 An issue was discovered in Exiv2 0.27. CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.8
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