7.5

CVE-2024-25269: struktur libheif Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-25269DEBIAN-CVE-2024-25269
Published 05-03-2024Last modified 16-04-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-25269 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in struktur libheif. EPSS estimates a 0.69% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 51.8% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
40/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.69%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1github

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 1
USN-7952-1

Timeline

  1. 05-03-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 16-04-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

libheif <= 1.17.6 contains a memory leak in the function JpegEncoder::Encode. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a denial of service attack.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.69%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

52%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.69% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.69%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • githubUnverified

    Libheif

    Maturity: poc

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • libheifAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 1.17.6-2
Struktur1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • libheif< 1.6.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 | < 1.12.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm2 | < 1.17.6-1ubuntu4.2

3 vendors · 3 products

References

6 links