CVE-2020-26208: Jhead Project Jhead

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

JHEAD is a simple command line tool for displaying and some manipulation of EXIF header data embedded in Jpeg images from digital cameras. In affected versions there is a heap-buffer-overflow on jhead-3.04/jpgfile.c:285 ReadJpegSections. Crafted jpeg images can be provided to the user resulting in a program crash or potentially incorrect exif information retrieval. Users are advised to upgrade. There is no known workaround for this issue.

Affected products

• Jhead Project Jhead: before 3.04 (fixed in 3.04)

Published 2022-02-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.