CVE-2021-40265: Freeimage Project Freeimage

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A heap overflow bug exists FreeImage before 1.18.0 via ofLoad function in PluginJPEG.cpp.

Affected products

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

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