Reported

January 4, 2021

Issued

September 8, 2022

Package

kamadak-exif (crates.io)

Type

Vulnerability

Categories

• denial-of-service

Keywords

#untrusted-data #dos

Aliases

• CVE-2021-21235
• GHSA-px9g-8hgv-jvg2

References

• https://github.com/kamadak/exif-rs/commit/1b05eab57e484cd7d576d4357b9cda7fdc57df8c

CVSS Score

6.5 MEDIUM

CVSS Details

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Patched

• >=0.5.3

Unaffected

• <0.5.2

Affected Functions

Version

kamadak_exif::Reader::read_from_container

• >=0.5.2, <0.5.3

Description

Attacker crafted data can cause a infinite loop leading to DoS if used with untrusted data.

Advisory available under CC0-1.0 license.