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CVE-2025-54080: Exiv2 Segmentation Faults in Exiv2::EpsImage::writeMetadata() via crafted EPS file

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 7/100)

  • 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: 0.14% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. No account or password is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: Exiv2 exiv2 0.28.6.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Exiv2 exiv2 0.28.6 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 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.

LowCVSS 1.8 · v4.0—No exploit Fix available
Published
Aug 29, 2025
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
EPSS
0.1% · 3th percentile

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Action score

7

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
7 / 40 · 1.8 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.1%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
proof of concept
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
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CNA · GitHub_M
1.8
NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
exiv2exiv2

Affected versions

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

  • exiv2 exiv2before 0.28.6

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

    • < 0.28.6affected

Package-level exposure

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

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:12exiv2from 0—
Debian:14exiv2before 0.28.7+dfsg-20.28.7+dfsg-2
openSUSE:Leap 16.0exiv2before 0.28.8-160000.1.10.28.8-160000.1.1
openSUSE:Tumbleweedexiv2before 0.28.8-1.10.28.8-1.1
PyPIexiv2up to and including 0.17.3—
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 16.0exiv2before 0.28.8-160000.1.10.28.8-160000.1.1
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5exiv2before 0.23-12.26.10.23-12.26.1

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-2024-39695Jul 8, 2024 · Exiv2 has an out-of-bounds read in AsfVideo::streamProperties
    26Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2025-26623Feb 18, 2025 · Use After Free in Exiv2
    21Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2025-55304Aug 29, 2025 · Exiv2 has quadratic performance in ICC profile parsing in JpegBase::readMetadata
    7Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

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

Product / packageFixed versionSource
Exiv2 exiv20.28.6 · descriptionVendor (CNA)
debian:exiv20.28.7+dfsg-2 · Debian:14Package registry (OSV)
opensuse:exiv20.28.8-1.1 · openSUSE:TumbleweedPackage registry (OSV)
suse:exiv20.28.8-160000.1.1 · SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 16.0Package 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

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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

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Credits

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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.

  • CVE-2024-39695417 days apartExiv2 has an out-of-bounds read in AsfVideo::streamProperties
    26Monitor
  • CVE-2026-25884185 days apartExiv2: Out-of-bounds read in CrwMap::decode0x0805
    10Monitor
  • CVE-2026-27596185 days apartExiv2: Integer Underflow in LoaderNative::getData() Causes Heap Buffer Overflow
    10Monitor

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.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
A
Scope
X

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

nvd-secondary

Attack context

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ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

  1. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

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