Libheif
CVE-2024-25269
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V2 - Validation and Business Logic Resource consumption limits
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Impact The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction not required. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could cause denial of service by exhausting system resources by sending crafted requests to the affected application. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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libheif <= 1.17.6 contains a memory leak in the function JpegEncoder::Encode. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
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No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Implement rate limiting, set resource quotas, validate input sizes, use timeouts.
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This vulnerability is classified as Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400), which allows attackers to cause denial of service by exhausting system resources. 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. Affected products include: Struktur Libheif.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Primary rating from Vendor (mitre) · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorVendor: mitre
DescriptionCVE.org
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.
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Attack Technique
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org
libheif v1.17.5 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the function UncompressedImageCodec::get_luma_bit
libheif v1.17.5 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the function find_exif_tag at /libheif/exif.cc. R
libheif v1.17.5 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the component /libheif/exif.cc. Rated high severi
libheif v1.17.5 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the function UncompressedImageCodec::decode_uncom
libheif 1.4.0 has a use-after-free in heif::HeifContext::Image::set_alpha_channel in heif_context.h because heif_context
In Libheif 1.17.6, insufficient checks in ImageOverlay::parse() decoding a heif file containing an overlay image with fo
Out-of-bounds read in libheif's HEIF/HEIC overlay processing can disclose limited memory contents and crash affected app
A Segmentation fault caused by a floating point exception exists in libheif 1.15.1 using crafted heif images via the hei
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in libheif 1.19.7 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via the SAO (Sample Ad
Heap-based buffer overflow in libheif before 1.23.2 allows remote attackers to corrupt memory and potentially achieve co
Heap buffer overflow write in libheif (versions ≤ 1.21.2) lets a crafted HEIF/AVIF file write 64 bytes of attacker-contr
Arbitrary code execution in libheif 1.19.0 through 1.21.2 via a crafted HEIF file with uncompressed, tiled, component-in
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