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Alpine: multiple exiv2 packages: security update to 0.28.6-r0

low Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 435166

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

 - 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. (CVE-2025-54080)

 - Exiv2 is a C++ library and a command-line utility to read, write, delete and modify Exif, IPTC, XMP and
 ICC image metadata. A denial-of-service was found in Exiv2 version 0.28.5: a quadratic algorithm in the
 ICC profile parsing code in jpegBase::readMetadata() can cause Exiv2 to run for a long time. The denial-
 of-service is triggered when Exiv2 is used to read the metadata of a crafted jpg image file. The bug is
 fixed in version 0.28.6. (CVE-2025-55304)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-54080

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-55304

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 435166

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Published: 8/30/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.73

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-55304

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.8

Threat Score: 0.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/29/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-54080, CVE-2025-55304

IAVA: 2025-A-0638