CVE-2021-40266: Freeimage Project Freeimage

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

FreeImage before 1.18.0, ReadPalette function in PluginTIFF.cpp is vulnerabile to null pointer dereference.

Affected products

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

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