music-metadata is a metadata parser for audio and video media files. Prior to 11.15.0, the DSF parser handles an unrecognized chunk by calling tokenizer.ignore without awaiting the returned promise and without first rejecting a chunk size smaller than the 12-byte chunk header. A crafted DSF input can produce a negative ignore length; with strtok3 10.3.5 or later, the resulting RangeError is detached from the parseBuffer promise and becomes an unhandled rejection under Node.js default behavior. The parse call can appear to resolve before the process crashes, bypassing per-parse try/catch handling. The demonstrated impact is availability loss only and requires the DSF parsing path. This issue is fixed in version 11.15.0.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 5
- https://github.com/Borewit/music-metadata/commit/e7fc27a96e789d41ece41fdac590fc7618274a41 Patch
- https://github.com/Borewit/music-metadata/pull/2700 Patch
- https://github.com/Borewit/music-metadata/releases/tag/v11.15.0 Patch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/Borewit/music-metadata/security/advisories/GHSA-8j4c-6x6g-rq3j Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/Borewit/music-metadata/security/advisories/GHSA-8j4c-6x6g-rq3j 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 19:35
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:borewit:music-metadata:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 5
- https://github.com/Borewit/music-metadata/commit/e7fc27a96e789d41ece41fdac590fc7618274a41 Patch
- https://github.com/Borewit/music-metadata/pull/2700 Patch
- https://github.com/Borewit/music-metadata/releases/tag/v11.15.0 Patch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/Borewit/music-metadata/security/advisories/GHSA-8j4c-6x6g-rq3j Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/Borewit/music-metadata/security/advisories/GHSA-8j4c-6x6g-rq3j Exploit, Vendor Advisory