Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime Affecting ImageMagick/ImageMagick package, versions [,7.1.2-32)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-IMAGEMAGICKIMAGEMAGICK-20882742
  • published13 Oct 2026
  • disclosed12 Oct 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-109270  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ImageMagick/ImageMagick to version 7.1.2-32 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime via the -process option. An attacker can cause unreleased memory allocations by repeatedly invoking the -process option with crafted arguments, leading to gradual memory exhaustion and degradation of service availability.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1