Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting imagemagick package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.57% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-IMAGEMAGICK-14742476
  • published1 Jan 2026
  • disclosed30 Dec 2025
  • creditylwango613

Introduced: 30 Dec 2025

CVE-2025-68618  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Recursion via the SVGStartElement and ResizeQuantumMemory functions. An attacker can cause application crashes or resource exhaustion by submitting SVG files that trigger excessive memory allocation.

PoC

  1. Generate an SVG file.

  2. Read this file using ImageMagick:

./magick /data/ylwang/Tools/LargeScan/targets/ImageMagick/test++/1.svg null
  1. This causes a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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