Use After Free Affecting ImageMagick/ImageMagick package, versions [,6.9.13-57)[7.0.0,7.1.2-32)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.37% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-IMAGEMAGICKIMAGEMAGICK-20882790
  • published13 Oct 2026
  • disclosed12 Oct 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-109268  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ImageMagick/ImageMagick to version 6.9.13-57, 7.1.2-32 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free in the PDF writer process when handling CMYK images with JPEG2000 compression. An attacker can cause the reuse of freed memory by supplying a specially crafted CMYK image, potentially leading to a crash of the process.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1