CVE-2026-109258
Imagemagick: null pointer dereference can lead to denial of service
- Risk score
- 50/100
- CVSS
- 7.5 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.1%
- Published
- 12 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- ImageMagick 7.1.0-20 before 7.1.2-32 contains an invalid memory free vulnerability in the fx operation that occurs when initialization of an FX runtime entry fails. Attackers can trigger the failed FX runtime initialization to cause an invalid free, resulting in memory corruption and application crashes.
- Affected
- Imagemagick before 7.1.2
- Fix
- Upgrade Imagemagick to 7.1.2 or later.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Story map
At a glance
Imagemagick: Yellow, plan it in. ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to 7.1.2-31 and 6.9.13-56, a missing security-policy check in the CUT encoder allows a crafted local encoding operation to read data that policy should deny and can also cause a crash. This issue is fixed in versions 7…
The flaws
- CVE-2026-109258: Null pointer dereference can lead to denial of service (CVSS 7.5 · EPSS 0%)
- CVE-2026-106580: Access control flaw can lead to denial of service (CVSS 8.2 · EPSS 0%)
- CVE-2026-106573: Denial of service (CVSS 7.5 · EPSS 0%)
- CVE-2026-106576: Denial of service (CVSS 7.5 · EPSS 0%)
The fix
Upgrade Imagemagick: 7.1.2 or later on your release line
Who is exposed: Imagemagick before 7.1.2
Where it stands
- No known exploitation
Connects to
- Same weakness: Null pointer dereference (CWE-476). 129 other warnings in 30 days
- Same product: Earlier Imagemagick warnings. 26 in the last 90 days
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 7.5 high
- Remotely exploitable without logging in
References
Original description
ImageMagick 7.1.0-20 before 7.1.2-32 contains an invalid memory free vulnerability in the fx operation that occurs when initialization of an FX runtime entry fails. Attackers can trigger the failed FX runtime initialization to cause an invalid free, resulting in memory corruption and application crashes.
Last activity 12 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.