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CVE-2026-8814

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.3 Published: 2026-05-19 Modified: 2026-07-23

Description

Versions of the package exifreader before 4.39.0 are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) due to decompressing PNG zTXt metadata without enforcing a built-in maximum decompressed output size. When asynchronous parsing is enabled, a crafted PNG file containing a highly compressed zTXt chunk can cause ExifReader to materialize a disproportionately large Comment value in memory.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-409, CWE-409

References