FKIE_CVE-2026-40169

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-04-13 22:16 - Updated: 2026-04-17 20:45
Severity ?
6.2 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/f86452a8aea37bf2b4bd36127f836dcc5f138b38Patch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/releases/tag/7.1.2-19Release Notes
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-5592-p365-24xhVendor Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/dlemstra/Magick.NET/releases/tag/14.12.0Release Notes
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
imagemagick imagemagick *
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