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.
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GHSA-cw26-7653-2rp5 | exiftool-vendored vulnerable to argument injection via newline characters in tag names |
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Mon, 11 May 2026 21:30:00 +0000
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | exiftool-vendored: Argument injection via newline characters in tag names | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-88 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-05-11T20:59:14.560Z
Reserved: 2026-05-04T15:17:09.330Z
Link: CVE-2026-43893
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-05-11T22:22:14.033
Modified: 2026-05-11T22:22:14.033
Link: CVE-2026-43893
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