🛡️ CVE-2026-40311 — imagemagick

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-416 NVD
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Description

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Versions below 7.1.2-19 and 6.9.13-44 contain a heap use-after-free vulnerability that can cause a crash when reading and printing values from an invalid XMP profile. This issue has been fixed in versions 6.9.13-44 and 7.1.2-19.

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 high.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-40311 is classified as CWE-416: Use After Free. Memory is used after being released, so its contents may already belong to something else.

Affected software

CVE-2026-40311 is recorded against 17 packages.

  • imagemagick (from 7.0.0-0 up to 7.1.2-19)
  • magick.net-q16-anycpu (fixed in 14.12.0)
  • magick.net-q16-arm64 (fixed in 14.12.0)
  • magick.net-q16-hdri-anycpu (fixed in 14.12.0)
  • magick.net-q16-hdri-arm64 (fixed in 14.12.0)
  • magick.net-q16-hdri-openmp-arm64 (fixed in 14.12.0)
  • magick.net-q16-hdri-x64 (fixed in 14.12.0)
  • magick.net-q16-hdri-x86 (fixed in 14.12.0)
  • magick.net-q16-openmp-arm64 (fixed in 14.12.0)
  • magick.net-q16-openmp-x64 (fixed in 14.12.0)
  • magick.net-q16-x64 (fixed in 14.12.0)
  • magick.net-q16-x86 (fixed in 14.12.0)
  • magick.net-q8-anycpu (fixed in 14.12.0)
  • magick.net-q8-arm64 (fixed in 14.12.0)
  • magick.net-q8-openmp-arm64 (fixed in 14.12.0)
  • magick.net-q8-x64 (fixed in 14.12.0)
  • magick.net-q8-x86 (fixed in 14.12.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 April 2026 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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CVE-2026-40311 on other distributions

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

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-416
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-04-13
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
imagemagick 7.0.0-0 7.1.2-19
magick.net-q16-anycpu 14.12.0
magick.net-q16-arm64 14.12.0
magick.net-q16-hdri-anycpu 14.12.0
magick.net-q16-hdri-arm64 14.12.0
magick.net-q16-hdri-openmp-arm64 14.12.0
magick.net-q16-hdri-x64 14.12.0
magick.net-q16-hdri-x86 14.12.0
magick.net-q16-openmp-arm64 14.12.0
magick.net-q16-openmp-x64 14.12.0
magick.net-q16-x64 14.12.0
magick.net-q16-x86 14.12.0
magick.net-q8-anycpu 14.12.0
magick.net-q8-arm64 14.12.0
magick.net-q8-openmp-arm64 14.12.0
magick.net-q8-x64 14.12.0
magick.net-q8-x86 14.12.0

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