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medium 5.5

CVE-2026-40183 json

ImageMagick: Heap buffer overflow when encoding JXL image with a 16-bit float

published 2026-04-13 6 mo ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also EUVD-2026-22114 , GHSA-jvgr-9ph5-m8v4 , JLSEC-2026-1001

cvss
5.5
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 8%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. In versions below 7.1.2-19, the JXL encoder has an heap write overflow when a user specifies that the image should be encoded as 16 bit floats. This issue has been fixed in version 7.1.2-19.

Patch / fix

  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU 14.12.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU 14.12.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64 14.12.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-arm64 14.12.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64 14.12.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x86 14.12.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-arm64 14.12.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-x64 14.12.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-arm64 14.12.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-x64 14.12.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-x86 14.12.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q8-AnyCPU 14.12.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-arm64 14.12.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-x64 14.12.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q8-arm64 14.12.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q8-x64 14.12.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q8-x86 14.12.0
  • julia ImageMagick_jll 7.1.2023+0
  • imagemagick imagemagick 7.1.2-19
  • imagemagick Debian 13 8:7.1.1.43+dfsg1-1+deb13u8
  • imagemagick Debian 14 8:7.1.2.19+dfsg1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-40183

  • ImageMagick SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP7, SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP7 7.1.1.43-150700.3.47.1
  • ImageMagick SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES 15 SP6-LTSS 7.1.1.21-150600.3.55.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:1598-1SUSE-SU-2026:1597-1

  • ImageMagick openSUSE Leap 16.0 7.1.2.0-160000.8.1
  • ImageMagick openSUSE Tumbleweed 7.1.2.19-2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:20606-1openSUSE-SU-2026:10586-1

  • imagemagick Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23 7.1.2.19-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2026-40183

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-2026-40183 updated cvss 5.5

ImageMagick: Magick.NET: ImageMagick: Denial of Service via heap write overflow in JXL encoder

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ImageMagick, ImageMagick-c++, ImageMagick-perl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ImageMagick, ImageMagick-c++, ImageMagick-perl
    affected: workaround, 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
6 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 8% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU
<14.12.0
14.12.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU
<14.12.0
14.12.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64
<14.12.0
14.12.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-arm64
<14.12.0
14.12.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64
<14.12.0
14.12.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x86
<14.12.0
14.12.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-arm64
<14.12.0
14.12.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-x64
<14.12.0
14.12.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-arm64
<14.12.0
14.12.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-x64
<14.12.0
14.12.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-x86
<14.12.0
14.12.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-AnyCPU
<14.12.0
14.12.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-arm64
<14.12.0
14.12.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-x64
<14.12.0
14.12.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-arm64
<14.12.0
14.12.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-x64
<14.12.0
14.12.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-x86
<14.12.0
14.12.0
julia ImageMagick_jll
<7.1.2023+0
7.1.2023+0

Affected products

  • ImageMagick ImageMagick

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow

References

Sources

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