cve-2026-14454

CRITICAL CVSS 9.8 cvelistv5
Description

Imager versions before 1.033 for Perl treat unsigned EXIF IFD entry counts as signed. Imager mishandled large EXIF IFD entry count values, treating them as negative numbers. This could lead to an attempt to allocate a block nearly the size of the address space, which fails and kills the process. An attacker could craft an image with EXIF data that terminates a worker process.

Timeline
Published
2026-07-08 12:30 UTC
Last Modified
2026-07-09
CVSS Details
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
Affected Products
  • TONYC Imager
Weaknesses (CWE)
SSVC (CISA Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization) CISA Coordinator v2.0.3
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
total
Decision timestamp
2026-07-09T13:50:57.514385Z

What is SSVC? — CISA's vulnerability-prioritisation framework using a decision tree rather than a single score.

References
Linked Vulnerabilities

No linked vulnerabilities found.

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