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SCA: security update for com.drewnoakes:metadata-extractor (GHSA-4v6p-cxf9-98rf)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 433778

Description

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

 - When reading a specially crafted JPEG file, metadata-extractor up to 2.16.0 can be made to allocate large
 amounts of memory that finally leads to an out-of-memory error even for very small inputs. This could be
 used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use metadata-extractor library.
 (CVE-2022-24614)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4v6p-cxf9-98rf

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 433778

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

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: High

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-2022-24614

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: High

Base Score: 7.1

Threat Score: 5.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

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-2022-24614

cwe: CWE-770