CVE-2026-26284: ImageMagick

Critical severity, CVSS 9.1. 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, ImageMagick lacks proper boundary checking when processing Huffman-coded data from PCD (Photo CD) files. The decoder contains an function that has an incorrect initialization that could cause an out of bounds read. 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.