Proposed as a Freeze Exception for 43-beta by Fedora user farchord using the blocker tracking app because:

 0.28.6 fixes two low severity CVEs.

FEDORA-2025-c23727e694 (exiv2-0.28.6-2.fc43) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 43.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-c23727e694

FEDORA-2025-c23727e694 has been pushed to the Fedora 43 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2025-c23727e694`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-c23727e694

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Discussed at the 2025-09-01 (blocker / freeze exception) review meeting:

The vote is split (3–5); the decision has been deferred for further voting on the ticket.

https://meetbot-raw.fedoraproject.org//blocker-review_matrix_fedoraproject-org/2025-09-01/f43-blocker-review.2025-09-01-16.00.txt

Discussed at the 2025-09-08 (blocker / freeze exception) review meeting:

We consider it still risky to pull in due to the previous ABI breakage, and the CVEs are low-risk, so we will retain this as an update only.

https://meetbot-raw.fedoraproject.org//blocker-review_matrix_fedoraproject-org/2025-09-08/f43-blocker-review.2025-09-08-16.00.txt

FEDORA-2025-c23727e694 (exiv2-0.28.6-2.fc43) has been pushed to the Fedora 43 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.