CVE-2026-109263
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 YUV encoder, which fails to release allocated memory when a specific operation fails. Attackers can supply crafted input that triggers the failing encoder operation, leaking memory and potentially exhausting resources to cause a denial …
- 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-2026-109263: 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). 40 other warnings in 30 days
- Same product: Earlier Imagemagick warnings. 69 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/493fab0b6072787e929184761b6ab6405a9486a2
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-69jx-j2x2-g5w4
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/3e2075fe4a148ce33e7d749a99898e55a6cad7b5
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/imagemagick-before-6.9.13-57-and-7-x-before-7.1.2-32-memory-leak-in-yuv-encoder
Original description
ImageMagick before 6.9.13-57 and 7.x before 7.1.2-32 contains a memory leak in the YUV encoder, which fails to release allocated memory when a specific operation fails. Attackers can supply crafted input that triggers the failing encoder operation, leaking memory and potentially exhausting resources to cause a denial of service.
Last activity 12 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.