CVE-2021-40262: Freeimage Project Freeimage

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A stack exhaustion issue was discovered in FreeImage before 1.18.0 via the Validate function in PluginRAW.cpp.

Affected products

• Freeimage Project Freeimage: before 1.18.0 (fixed in 1.18.0)

Published 2023-08-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.