CVE-2021-28276

HIGH 7.5CVE-2021-28276 · Published 23/03/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-28276 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting jhead (jhead project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.1%, higher than 66.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
jhead jhead_project	`= 3.04= 3.05`	No fix yet

A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in jhead 3.04 and 3.05 via a wild address read in the ProcessCanonMakerNoteDir function in makernote.c.

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