CVE-2026-56376

medium

Description

ImageMagick before 7.1.2-15 and 6.9.13-40 contains a heap use-after-free in the meta coder: when memory allocation fails, a single byte is written to a stale pointer. Remote attackers can trigger it by processing specially crafted image files, causing a denial of service.

References

Advisories

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/imagemagick-heap-use-after-free-in-meta-coder

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-2gq3-ww97-wfjm

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-06-23

Updated: 2026-06-24

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 3.3

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Severity: Low

CVSS v4

Base Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0027