CVE-2025-55298: ImageMagick

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 4.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to ImageMagick versions 6.9.13-28 and 7.1.2-2, a format string bug vulnerability exists in InterpretImageFilename function where user input is directly passed to FormatLocaleString without proper sanitization. An attacker can overwrite arbitrary memory regions, enabling a wide range of attacks from heap overflow to remote code execution. This issue has been patched in versions 6.9.13-28 and 7.1.2-2.

Affected products

• ImageMagick ImageMagick: before 6.9.13-28 (fixed in 6.9.13-28); from 7.0.0-0, before 7.1.2-2 (fixed in 7.1.2-2)

Published 2025-08-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.