🛡️ CVE-2026-32259 — imagemagick

🟡 CVSS 6.7 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-121 NVD
6.7
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to 7.1.2-16 and 6.9.13-41, when a memory allocation fails in the sixel encoder it would be possible to write past the end of a buffer on the stack. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.1.2-16 and 6.9.13-41.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-32259 is classified as CWE-121: Stack-based Buffer Overflow. An oversized write to a stack buffer overwrites saved state such as return addresses, which can redirect execution.

Affected software

CVE-2026-32259 is recorded against 1 package.

  • imagemagick (from 7.0.0-0 up to 7.1.2-16)

Timeline and source

Published on 12 March 2026 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com

CVE-2026-32259 on other distributions

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

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-121
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-03-12
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
imagemagick 7.0.0-0 7.1.2-16

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