🛡️ CVE-2025-68469 — imagemagick

🟢 CVSS 3.3 — Low ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-122 NVD
3.3
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

ImageMagick has a heap-buffer-overflow

Summary

While Processing a crafted TIFF file, imagemagick crashes.

Details

Following is the imagemagick version:

```

imagemagick_git/build_26jun23/bin/magick --version

Version: ImageMagick 7.1.1-13 (Beta) Q16-HDRI x86_64 56f478940:20230625 https://imagemagick.org

Copyright: (C) 1999 ImageMagick Studio LLC

License: https://imagemagick.org/script/license.php

Features: Cipher DPC HDRI

Delegates (built-in): fontconfig freetype jbig jng jpeg lcms lzma pangocairo png tiff webp x xml zlib

Compiler: gcc (4.2)

```

PoC

issue can be replicated with following command with provided POC file(sent over email):

```bash

magick poc.tiff /dev/null

```

Impact

This can lead to application crash.

Credits

Please give credits to Hardik shah of Vehere (Dawn Treaders team)

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability low.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-68469 is classified as CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow. A write past the end of a heap allocation corrupts allocator metadata or neighbouring objects.

Affected software

CVE-2025-68469 is recorded against 19 packages.

  • imagemagick (fixed in 7.1.1-14)
  • magick.net-q16-anycpu (fixed in 13.2.0)
  • magick.net-q16-arm64 (fixed in 13.2.0)
  • magick.net-q16-hdri-anycpu (fixed in 13.2.0)
  • magick.net-q16-hdri-arm64 (fixed in 13.2.0)
  • magick.net-q16-hdri-openmp-arm64 (fixed in 13.2.0)
  • magick.net-q16-hdri-openmp-x64 (fixed in 13.2.0)
  • magick.net-q16-hdri-x64 (fixed in 13.2.0)
  • magick.net-q16-hdri-x86 (fixed in 13.2.0)
  • magick.net-q16-openmp-arm64 (fixed in 13.2.0)
  • magick.net-q16-openmp-x64 (fixed in 13.2.0)
  • magick.net-q16-x64 (fixed in 13.2.0)
  • magick.net-q16-x86 (fixed in 13.2.0)
  • magick.net-q8-anycpu (fixed in 13.2.0)
  • magick.net-q8-arm64 (fixed in 13.2.0)
  • magick.net-q8-openmp-arm64 (fixed in 13.2.0)
  • magick.net-q8-openmp-x64 (fixed in 13.2.0)
  • magick.net-q8-x64 (fixed in 13.2.0)
  • magick.net-q8-x86 (fixed in 13.2.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 18 December 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com

CVE-2025-68469 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 3.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE CWE-122
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2025-12-18
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
imagemagick — 7.1.1-14
magick.net-q16-anycpu — 13.2.0
magick.net-q16-arm64 — 13.2.0
magick.net-q16-hdri-anycpu — 13.2.0
magick.net-q16-hdri-arm64 — 13.2.0
magick.net-q16-hdri-openmp-arm64 — 13.2.0
magick.net-q16-hdri-openmp-x64 — 13.2.0
magick.net-q16-hdri-x64 — 13.2.0
magick.net-q16-hdri-x86 — 13.2.0
magick.net-q16-openmp-arm64 — 13.2.0
magick.net-q16-openmp-x64 — 13.2.0
magick.net-q16-x64 — 13.2.0
magick.net-q16-x86 — 13.2.0
magick.net-q8-anycpu — 13.2.0
magick.net-q8-arm64 — 13.2.0
magick.net-q8-openmp-arm64 — 13.2.0
magick.net-q8-openmp-x64 — 13.2.0
magick.net-q8-x64 — 13.2.0
magick.net-q8-x86 — 13.2.0

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