CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2019-25553 — Cewe Photo Importer security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 6.9

CEWE PHOTO IMPORTER 6.4.3 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by importing a specially crafted image file. Attackers can create a malformed JPG file with an oversized buffer and trigger the crash through the import functionality during the image processing workflow.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
6.9 (4.0)
Published
2026-03-21
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-226

Affected products

  • cewe / photo_importer / 6.4.3

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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