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SCA: security update for com.drewnoakes:metadata-extractor (GHSA-p5pg-wm9q-8v6r)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 417313

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2022-24613)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p5pg-wm9q-8v6r

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 417313

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-24613

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/25/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/24/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-24613

cwe: CWE-755