CVE-2026-109260
Imagemagick: denial of service
- Risk score
- 56/100
- CVSS
- 7.5 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.4%
- Published
- 12 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- ImageMagick before 6.9.13-57 and 7.x before 7.1.2-32 contains a memory leak in the PNG encoder, which does not release allocated memory when libpng initialization fails. Attackers who can repeatedly trigger PNG encoding operations in which libpng initialization fails can exhaust memory and cause a denial of service.
- Affected
- Imagemagick before 6.9.13, 7.1.2
- Fix
- Upgrade Imagemagick to 6.9.13 or 7.1.2 (whichever matches your release line), 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-2026-109260: 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: 6.9.13 · 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: CWE-401 (CWE-401). 37 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
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/fd1b9c85f2634e34034d39016ed7542ac0a19930
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-hvwf-wmm6-hvc3
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/55346382cebdf5c5fa6c544a7df7ae4910ffb090
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/imagemagick-before-6.9.13-57-and-7-x-before-7.1.2-32-memory-leak-in-png-encoder
Original description
ImageMagick before 6.9.13-57 and 7.x before 7.1.2-32 contains a memory leak in the PNG encoder, which does not release allocated memory when libpng initialization fails. Attackers who can repeatedly trigger PNG encoding operations in which libpng initialization fails can exhaust memory and cause a denial of service.
Last activity 12 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.