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FKIE_CVE-2022-4104

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2022-11-28 19:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:19

Severity

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

A loop with an unreachable exit condition can be triggered by passing a crafted JPEG file to the Lepton image compression tool, resulting in a denial-of-service.

References

	URL	Tags
	vulnreport@tenable.com	https://tenable.com/security/research/TRA-2022-35	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://tenable.com/security/research/TRA-2022-35	Exploit, Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	lepton_project	lepton	1.2

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          "vendor": "n/a",
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}

CVE-2022-4104 (GCVE-0-2022-4104)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-28 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-14 18:08

Summary

A loop with an unreachable exit condition can be triggered by passing a crafted JPEG file to the Lepton image compression tool, resulting in a denial-of-service.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-14 18:05 UTC

CWE

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Assigner

tenable CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 49 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://tenable.com/security/research/TRA-2022-35

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	Dropbox Lepton	Affected: 1.2 and current development build

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