Uncontrolled Recursion 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
0.42% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-IMAGEMAGICKIMAGEMAGICK-20882812
  • published13 Oct 2026
  • disclosed12 Oct 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-109267  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (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 Uncontrolled Recursion via the MSL decoder due to an incorrect depth check that fails to limit recursion. An attacker can cause the process to crash and exhaust system resources by supplying crafted MSL images that trigger excessive stack usage.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1