CVE-2026-25983: ImageMagick

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 7.1.2-15 and 6.9.13-40, a crafted MSL script triggers a heap-use-after-free. The operation element handler replaces and frees the image while the parser continues reading from it, leading to a UAF in ReadBlobString during further parsing. Versions 7.1.2-15 and 6.9.13-40 contain a patch.

Affected products

• ImageMagick ImageMagick: before 6.9.13-40 (fixed in 6.9.13-40); from 7.0.0-0, before 7.1.2-15 (fixed in 7.1.2-15)

Published 2026-02-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.