CVE-2025-55304
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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Description
Exiv2 has quadratic performance in ICC profile parsing in JpegBase::readMetadata
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Affected | — |
| sid | Fixed | 0.28.7+dfsg-2 |
| forky | Fixed | 0.28.7+dfsg-2 |
| bullseye | Affected | — |
| bookworm | Affected | — |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | exiv2 | <=0.17.3 | |
References
- https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/security/advisories/GHSA-m54q-mm9w-fp6g
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-55304
- https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/3333
- https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/3335
- https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/3345
- https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-55304
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-55304.html
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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