High (7.1). EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In IJG JPEG (aka libjpeg) before 9d, jpeg_mem_available() in jmemnobs.c in djpeg does not honor the max_memory_to_use setting, possibly causing excessive memory consumption.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
7.1 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 74% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)