CVE-2025-32024 bep/imagemeta allows excessively large EXIF data structures
Attackers can cause denial of service by providing malicious images with excessively large EXIF structures to applications using the vulnerable Go library.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-32024?
CVE-2025-32024 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in bep imagemeta, published on 8 Apr 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
bep/imagemeta is a Go library for reading EXIF, IPTC and XMP image meta data from JPEG, TIFF, PNG, and WebP files. The EXIF data format allows for defining excessively large data structures in relatively small payloads. Before v0.10.0, If you didn't trust the input images, this could be abused to construct denial-of-service attacks. v0.10.0 added LimitNumTags (default 5000) and LimitTagSize (default 10000) options.
Weakness: CWE-770
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-32024?
3 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/bep/imagemeta.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
github.com/bep/imagemeta Go | All versions | 0.10.0 |
github.com/bep/imagemeta Go | All versions | 0.10.0 |
github.com/bep/imagemeta Go | All versions | 0.10.0 |
How do I fix CVE-2025-32024?
Upgrade github.com/bep/imagemeta to 0.10.0 or later.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2025-32024 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-32024 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-q7rw-w4cq-2j6w, GO-2025-3598.