Heap-based Buffer Overflow Affecting imagemagick package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-IMAGEMAGICK-16034086
  • published14 Apr 2026
  • disclosed13 Apr 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Apr 2026

CVE-2026-40183  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-122  (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 Heap-based Buffer Overflow in the JXL encoding process when handling images specified as 16-bit floats. An attacker can cause a heap buffer overflow by providing a specially crafted image file.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1