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Fencer Vulns
low 3.7

CVE-2026-109261 json

ImageMagick before 6.9.13-57 and 7.x before 7.1.2-32 Memory Leak in GIF Encoder

published 2026-10-12 27 d ago modified 2026-11-03 5 d ago also EUVD-2026-97705

cvss
3.7
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 36%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

ImageMagick before 6.9.13-57 and 7.x before 7.1.2-32 contains a memory leak in the GIF encoder because allocated memory is not released when color quantization fails during encoding. Attackers can supply images whose GIF conversion causes quantization to fail, leaking memory with each attempt and degrading availability.

Patch / fix

  • ImageMagick ImageMagick 6.9.13-57, 7.1.2-32
  • imagemagick Debian 12 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.6+deb12u14
  • imagemagick Debian 13 8:7.1.1.43+dfsg1-1+deb13u13
  • imagemagick Debian 14 8:7.1.2.33+dfsg1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-109261

  • ImageMagick SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +8 more 7.1.0.9-150400.6.122.1
  • ImageMagick SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5-LTSS 6.8.8.1-71.280.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:4799-1SUSE-SU-2026:4753-1

  • ImageMagick openSUSE Tumbleweed 7.1.2.34-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:12170-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-109261 updated cvss 3.7

ImageMagick: ImageMagick: Denial of Service via memory leak in GIF encoder

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ImageMagick, ImageMagick-c++, ImageMagick-perl
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ImageMagick, ImageMagick-c++, ImageMagick-perl
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
22 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 36% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 6.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 3.1 3.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CNA 4.0 6.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • ImageMagick ImageMagick

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

Sources

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