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  1. High, CVSS 8.2npmAmendedPublished

    exiftool-vendored vulnerable to argument injection via newline characters in tag names

    CVE-2026-43893 · GHSA-cw26-7653-2rp5

    Affected
    • npm exiftool-vendored <= 35.18.0
    Fixed in
    35.19.0· Vendor fix available
    Issue
    Impact exiftool-vendored starts ExifTool in -stayopen True -@ - mode, where arguments are read from stdin one per line. In affected versions, several caller-supplied strings were interpolated into ExifTool arguments without rejecting line delimiters. A newline or carriage return inside one of those strings could split a single intended argument into multiple ExifTool arguments, allowing argument injection. The fix also rejects NUL bytes as unsafe control characters. Applications that pass attacker-controlled strings to affected APIs may allow an attacker to make ExifTool read files accessible to the ExifTool process, or write output to attacker-chosen file system paths accessible to that process. No remote code execution has been demonstrated. The reported write-path issue is caused by unsanitized tag keys. Tag values passed to ExifTool#write are not affected, because WriteTask already encodes whitespace characters in values (e.g. \n - &#10;) before transmission. Confirmed affected…

    Recommended action: Upgrade to 35.19.0 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.

    Sources:osv.dev (1)github.com (2)Source checked Evidence →
  2. High, CVSS 7.8npmAmendedPublished

    Arbitrary code execution in ExifTool

    GHSA-4whq-r978-2x68

    Affected
    • npm exiftool-vendored < 14.3.0
    Fixed in
    14.3.0· Vendor fix available
    Issue
    Impact Arbitrary code execution can occur when running exiftool against files with hostile metadata payloads. Patches ExifTool has already been patched in version 12.24. exiftool-vendored, which vendors ExifTool, includes this patch in v14.3.0. Workarounds No. References https://twitter.com/wcbowling/status/1385803927321415687 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-22204 For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: Open an issue in exiftool-vendored

    Recommended action: Upgrade to 14.3.0 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.

    Sources:osv.dev (1)github.com (2)Source checked Evidence →