music-metadata is a metadata parser for audio and video media files. In the public development revision introduced after 11.14.0, a development-branch regression in the MP4 stsd sample-description parser allows an attacker-controlled sample-entry size of zero to prevent the StsdAtom.get cursor from advancing while an attacker-controlled entry_count keeps the synchronous loop running. A crafted MP4-family input can block the Node.js event loop and grow the sample-description table until the process is terminated or exhausts memory. The vulnerable change was present on the public master branch but was not included in music-metadata 11.14.0 or any earlier npm release, and version 11.16.0 contains the fix. This issue is fixed in version 11.16.0.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 4
- https://github.com/Borewit/music-metadata/commit/90a7d52c69e921a0b019592d887acd97b1c8b8a5 Exploit, Patch
- https://github.com/Borewit/music-metadata/pull/2734 Exploit, Patch
- https://github.com/Borewit/music-metadata/releases/tag/v11.16.0 Patch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/Borewit/music-metadata/security/advisories/GHSA-f94x-6692-553q Exploit, Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.5 · borewitNVD modified 2026-10-13 19:39
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:borewit:music-metadata:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 4
- https://github.com/Borewit/music-metadata/commit/90a7d52c69e921a0b019592d887acd97b1c8b8a5 Exploit, Patch
- https://github.com/Borewit/music-metadata/pull/2734 Exploit, Patch
- https://github.com/Borewit/music-metadata/releases/tag/v11.16.0 Patch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/Borewit/music-metadata/security/advisories/GHSA-f94x-6692-553q Exploit, Vendor Advisory