CVE-2025-54080: exiv2 Out-of-bounds Read
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2025-54080 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in exiv2. EPSS estimates a 0.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 3.1% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 5Timeline
- 29-08-2025PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 29-08-2025Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
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.
CVSS metrics
7 scores · 5 sources · 2 versions- OSV · PypiEcosystem advisory · calculated1.8LowCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated1.8LowCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- NVDNIST1.8LowCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.14%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
3%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 0.14% on 19-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Debian1 product
- exiv2All versions (No fix recorded) | < 0.28.7+dfsg-2
Exiv21 product
- exiv2< 0.28.6
PyPI1 product
- exiv2≤ 0.17.3
Ubuntu1 product
- exiv2< 0.25-2.1ubuntu16.04.7+esm5 | < 0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.11+esm1 | < 0.27.2-8ubuntu2.7+esm1 | < 0.27.5-3ubuntu1.1 | < 0.27.6-1ubuntu0.1 | < 0.28.5+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1
4 vendors · 4 products
References
10 links- github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/security/advisories/GHSA-496f-x7cq-cq39X Refsource CONFIRMWEBREPORTThird Party Advisory
- github.com/Exiv2/exiv2PACKAGE
- pypi.org/project/exiv2PACKAGE
