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    1 vulnerability by photostructure

    CVE-2026-43893 (GCVE-0-2026-43893)

    Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-11 20:59 – Updated: 2026-05-12 12:54
    VLAI
    Title
    exiftool-vendored: Argument injection via newline characters in tag names
    Summary
    exiftool-vendored provides cross-platform Node.js access to ExifTool. Prior to 35.19.0, exiftool-vendored starts ExifTool in -stay_open 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. This vulnerability is fixed in 35.19.0.
    Severity
    8.2 (High)
    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
    SSVC
    Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
    CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
    CWE
    • CWE-88 - Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')
    Assigner
    References
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