Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting ImageMagick/ImageMagick package, versions [,6.9.13-55)[7.0.0 ,7.1.2-30)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-IMAGEMAGICKIMAGEMAGICK-19644111
  • published8 Sept 2026
  • disclosed7 Sept 2026
  • credithaoxiang Yan

Introduced: 7 Sep 2026

NewCVE-2026-86420  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ImageMagick/ImageMagick to version 6.9.13-55, 7.1.2-30 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling due to improper handling of the memory budget in the OpenPixelCache function. An attacker can cause exhaustion of the process memory budget by repeatedly triggering failures in this process, leading to application unavailability.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1