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Medium · 6.2 CVE-2026-107388 EUVD-2026-95169GHSA-jjpr-9cvf-cq55

music-metadata: ID3v2 tag size not validated before allocation, causing memory exhaustion DoS

Published Oct 8, 2026 · Updated Oct 14, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

music-metadata is a metadata parser for audio and video media files. Prior to 11.16.0, the ID3v2 parser trusts the syncsafe tag-size field and allocates the complete tag body before checking whether the input contains the declared bytes. A truncated file containing only an ID3v2 header can request an allocation approaching 268 MiB; the allocation succeeds, the subsequent read reaches end of stream, the EndOfStreamError is caught internally, and the caller receives a normal metadata object. This issue is fixed in version 11.16.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Borewit music-metadata < 11.16.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm music-metadata < 11.16.0 11.16.0 GHSA-jjpr-9cvf-cq55

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