🛡️ CVE-2026-42050 — imagemagick

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-121 NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
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Description

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to 7.1.2-21 and 6.9.13-46, a malicious MIFF file could trigger an overflow when a user opens it in the display tool and right-clicks a tile to invoke the Load / Update menu item. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.1.2-21 and 6.9.13-46.

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-2026-42050 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-2026-42050 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • imagemagick (from 7.0.0-0 up to 7.1.2-21)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 11 May 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-2026-42050 on other distributions

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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-121
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-05-11
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
imagemagick 7.0.0-0 7.1.2-21
unknown — —

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