CVE•Published 2026-05-19•Modified 2026-05-19•0 articles on news•6 live references•NVD data

CVE-2026-8814

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

EPSS percentile

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Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-409Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

Description

Versions of the package exifreader before 4.39.0 are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) due to decompressing PNG zTXt metadata without enforcing a built-in maximum decompressed output size. When asynchronous parsing is enabled, a crafted PNG file containing a highly compressed zTXt chunk can cause ExifReader to materialize a disproportionately large Comment value in memory.

Timeline

Published 2026-05-19

Modified 2026-05-19

External references

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Search for exposed instances

Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).

Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts

vuln:CVE-2026-8814

Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.

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Shodan report

vuln:CVE-2026-8814

Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.

Censys

vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-8814

Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.

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CVE-2026-8814