CVE-2026-8814
medium
CVSS v3
5.3
CVSS v4 NEW
5.5
VIR risk
5.3
Description
ExifReader is vulnerable to denial of service via unbounded decompression of image metadata
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
63%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ if you've already worked around this in production โ publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
โ Propose a mitigation on Community โ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | exifreader | >=4.20.0,<4.39.0 | 4.39.0 |
References
- https://gist.github.com/yuki-matsuhashi/cad1a45d936062438b4ab24613c34c55
- https://github.com/mattiasw/ExifReader/commit/5f116128adc19f674902f8bf582bfe7dd0a36375
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-EXIFREADER-16689340
- https://github.com/mattiasw/ExifReader/security/advisories/GHSA-rr89-w3h9-m66j
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8814
- https://github.com/mattiasw/ExifReader
CWEs
CWE-409
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.