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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.9

CVE-2026-53462 json

ImageMagick: Use-After-Free when allocation in CheckPrimitiveExtent fails

published 2026-06-10 4 mo ago modified 2026-07-30 3 mo ago also EUVD-2026-36189 , GHSA-px7q-ggqj-hcf2 , JLSEC-2026-1030

cvss
5.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 13%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 6.9.13-50 and 7.1.2-25, when an allocation fails in CheckPrimitiveExtent this can result in a heap-use-after-free and result in a crash. This issue has been patched in versions 6.9.13-50 and 7.1.2-25.

Patch / fix

  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU 14.14.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU 14.14.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64 14.14.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-arm64 14.14.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64 14.14.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x86 14.14.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-arm64 14.14.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-x64 14.14.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-arm64 14.14.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-x64 14.14.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-x86 14.14.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q8-AnyCPU 14.14.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-arm64 14.14.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-x64 14.14.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q8-arm64 14.14.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q8-x64 14.14.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q8-x86 14.14.0
  • julia ImageMagick_jll 7.1.2028+0
  • imagemagick imagemagick 6.9.13-50, 7.1.2-25
  • imagemagick Debian 14 8:7.1.2.25+dfsg1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-53462

  • ImageMagick openSUSE Tumbleweed 7.1.2.25-2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:11061-1

  • imagemagick Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23 7.1.2.25-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2026-53462

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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-2026-53462 updated cvss 3.7

ImageMagick: ImageMagick: Denial of Service due to heap-use-after-free in CheckPrimitiveExtent

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

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
4 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 13% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU
<14.14.0
14.14.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU
<14.14.0
14.14.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64
<14.14.0
14.14.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-arm64
<14.14.0
14.14.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64
<14.14.0
14.14.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x86
<14.14.0
14.14.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-arm64
<14.14.0
14.14.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-x64
<14.14.0
14.14.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-arm64
<14.14.0
14.14.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-x64
<14.14.0
14.14.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-x86
<14.14.0
14.14.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-AnyCPU
<14.14.0
14.14.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-arm64
<14.14.0
14.14.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-x64
<14.14.0
14.14.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-arm64
<14.14.0
14.14.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-x64
<14.14.0
14.14.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-x86
<14.14.0
14.14.0
julia ImageMagick_jll
<7.1.2028+0
7.1.2028+0

Affected products

  • ImageMagick ImageMagick

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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