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CVE-2024-25112: Denial of service due to unbounded recursion in QuickTimeVideo::multipleEntriesDecoder in Exiv2

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 20/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.22% (FIRST EPSS).
Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. A user must open a link or visit a page. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: exiv2 (Alpine:v3.19) 0.28.2-r0; exiv2 (Debian:13) 0.28.3+dfsg-2; exiv2 (openSUSE:Leap 16.0) 0.28.8-160000.1.1.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to exiv2 (Alpine:v3.19) 0.28.2-r0; exiv2 (Debian:13) 0.28.3+dfsg-2; exiv2 (openSUSE:Leap 16.0) 0.28.8-160000.1.1 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Exiv2 is a command-line utility and C++ library for reading, writing, deleting, and modifying the metadata of image files. A denial-of-service was found in Exiv2 version v0.28.1: an unbounded recursion can cause Exiv2 to crash by exhausting the stack. The vulnerable function, `QuickTimeVideo::multipleEntriesDecoder`, was new in v0.28.0, so Exiv2 versions before v0.28 are _not_ affected. The denial-of-service is triggered when Exiv2 is used to read the metadata of a crafted video file. This bug is fixed in version v0.28.2. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

MediumCVSS 5.0 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

Denial of service

Published: Feb 12, 2024
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.2% · 12th percentile
CWE: CWE-400

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 20 / 40 · 5.0 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.2%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: 5.0
CNA · GitHub_M: 5.5; 0.5 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
exiv2	exiv2	cpe:2.3:a:exiv2:exiv2

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

exiv2 exiv20.28.0
exiv2 exiv20.28.1

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (GitHub_M). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Exiv2 exiv2
- >= 0.28.0 < 0.28.2affected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected range	Fix
Alpine:v3.19	exiv2	before 0.28.2-r0	0.28.2-r0
Debian:12	exiv2	from 0	—
Debian:13	exiv2	before 0.28.3+dfsg-2	0.28.3+dfsg-2
openSUSE:Leap 16.0	exiv2	before 0.28.8-160000.1.1	0.28.8-160000.1.1
openSUSE:Tumbleweed	exiv2	before 0.28.2-1.1	0.28.2-1.1
PyPI	exiv2	from 0.16.0 · before 0.16.1	0.16.1
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 16.0	exiv2	before 0.28.8-160000.1.1	0.28.8-160000.1.1

Same product

exiv2: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2018-11531Exiv2 0.26 has a heap-based buffer overflow in getData in preview.cpp.
40Plan
CVE-2019-9144An issue was discovered in Exiv2 0.27.
36Monitor
CVE-2019-9143An issue was discovered in Exiv2 0.27.
36Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2023-44398Nov 6, 2023 · Out-of-bounds write in exiv2
35Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2024-24826Feb 12, 2024 · Out-of-bounds read in QuickTimeVideo::NikonTagsDecoder in Exiv2
20Monitor
Later →CVE-2024-39695Jul 8, 2024 · Exiv2 has an out-of-bounds read in AsfVideo::streamProperties
26Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
alpine:exiv2	0.28.2-r0 · Alpine:v3.19	Package registry (OSV)
debian:exiv2	0.28.3+dfsg-2 · Debian:13	Package registry (OSV)
opensuse:exiv2	0.28.2-1.1 · openSUSE:Tumbleweed	Package registry (OSV)
PyPI:exiv2	0.16.1	Package registry (OSV)
suse:exiv2	0.28.8-160000.1.1 · SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 16.0	Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

Exiv2/exiv2PR 2337

Credits

All researchers

Finders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.

No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
A low-privileged account is enough.
A user must open a link or visit a page.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: none
Integrity: none
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Attack vector: Local
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: Required
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: None
Integrity impact: None
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd-primary

Root cause

Code that parses nested structures sets no depth or size limit. A small input can turn into a disproportionate processing load.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-400 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1function expand(node) {
2  return node.children.map(expand);
3}

Fixed

1const MAX_DEPTH = 32;
2function expand(node, depth = 0) {
3  if (depth > MAX_DEPTH) throw new Error("too deep");
4  return node.children.map((c) => expand(c, depth + 1));
5}