GHSA-h64w-w9pr-82m4
ExifReader is vulnerable to denial of service via crafted ICC `mluc` tag
Details
### Impact
When parsing an image with an embedded ICC profile that contains a crafted `multiLocalizedUnicodeType` (`mluc`) tag, ExifReader can be made to allocate memory proportional to attacker-controlled fields in the tag rather than to the actual size of the input. Processing such an image causes excessive memory consumption and can terminate the host process (out-of-memory).
Any application that calls `ExifReader.load()` on untrusted images, for example, user uploads in a web service, is affected. ICC profiles are carried in JPEG, TIFF, PNG, HEIC, AVIF, JPEG XL, and WebP, so the issue is reachable from any of those formats.
### Patches
Fixed in `exifreader@4.39.0`. Upgrade with:
npm install exifreader@latest
Bower users consume the bundled `dist/` files from this repository, and the same fix is committed there.
### Workarounds
If upgrading is not immediately possible, configure a [custom build](https://github.com/mattiasw/ExifReader#configure-a-custom-build) that excludes the `icc` module so that ICC parsing (and therefore this code path) is skipped entirely.
### Resources
- Patch: https://github.com/mattiasw/ExifReader/commit/c9d88b67e127b2dcc7b46e328df468257fb2dc30
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References
- https://github.com/mattiasw/ExifReader/security/advisories/GHSA-h64w-w9pr-82m4 [WEB]
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8813 [ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/mattiasw/ExifReader/commit/c9d88b67e127b2dcc7b46e328df468257fb2dc30 [WEB]
- https://github.com/mattiasw/ExifReader [PACKAGE]
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-EXIFREADER-16689335 [WEB]