CVE-2022-24613: Metadata-Extractor Project Metadata-Extractor

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

metadata-extractor up to 2.16.0 can throw various uncaught exceptions while parsing a specially crafted JPEG file, which could result in an application crash. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use metadata-extractor library.

Affected products

• Metadata-Extractor Project Metadata-Extractor: before 2.18.0 (fixed in 2.18.0)

Published 2022-02-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.