CVE-2019-16138: Image-RS Image

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in the image crate before 0.21.3 for Rust, affecting the HDR image format decoder. Vec::set_len is called on an uninitialized vector, leading to a use-after-free and arbitrary code execution.

Affected products

• Image-RS Image: from 0.10.2, before 0.21.3 (fixed in 0.21.3)

Published 2019-09-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.