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CVE-2026-40169

Published: Apr 13, 2026

Modified: Apr 14, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.2

MEDIUM

Description

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. In versions below 7.1.2-19, a crafted image could result in an out of bounds heap write when writing a yaml or json output, resulting in a crash. This issue has been fixed in version 7.1.2-19.

Vendor	Product	Versions
ImageMagick	ImageMagick	affected `< 7.1.2-19`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-5592-p365-24xh

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/f86452a8aea37bf2b4bd36127f836dcc5f138b38

x_refsource_MISC

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/releases/tag/7.1.2-19

x_refsource_MISC

https://github.com/dlemstra/Magick.NET/releases/tag/14.12.0

x_refsource_MISC

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