🛡️ CVE-2026-55595 — imagemagick
Description
ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 6.9.13-51 and 7.1.2-26, when providing invalid arguments to the connected-components option an infinite loop will occur. This issue has been fixed in versions 6.9.13-51 and 7.1.2-26.
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. 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-2026-55595 is classified as CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. A request can consume memory, CPU or storage without limit, exhausting capacity for everyone else.
Affected software
CVE-2026-55595 is recorded against 18 packages.
- imagemagick (from 7.0.0-0 up to 7.1.2-26)
- magick.net-q16-anycpu (fixed in 14.15.0)
- magick.net-q16-arm64 (fixed in 14.15.0)
- magick.net-q16-hdri-anycpu (fixed in 14.15.0)
- magick.net-q16-hdri-arm64 (fixed in 14.15.0)
- magick.net-q16-hdri-openmp-arm64 (fixed in 14.15.0)
- magick.net-q16-hdri-x64 (fixed in 14.15.0)
- magick.net-q16-hdri-x86 (fixed in 14.15.0)
- magick.net-q16-openmp-arm64 (fixed in 14.15.0)
- magick.net-q16-openmp-x64 (fixed in 14.15.0)
- magick.net-q16-x64 (fixed in 14.15.0)
- magick.net-q16-x86 (fixed in 14.15.0)
- magick.net-q8-anycpu (fixed in 14.15.0)
- magick.net-q8-arm64 (fixed in 14.15.0)
- magick.net-q8-openmp-arm64 (fixed in 14.15.0)
- magick.net-q8-openmp-x64 (fixed in 14.15.0)
- magick.net-q8-x64 (fixed in 14.15.0)
- magick.net-q8-x86 (fixed in 14.15.0)
Timeline and source
Published on 1 July 2026 and last revised on 2 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.
References
Details
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| imagemagick | 7.0.0-0 | 7.1.2-26 |
| magick.net-q16-anycpu | — | 14.15.0 |
| magick.net-q16-arm64 | — | 14.15.0 |
| magick.net-q16-hdri-anycpu | — | 14.15.0 |
| magick.net-q16-hdri-arm64 | — | 14.15.0 |
| magick.net-q16-hdri-openmp-arm64 | — | 14.15.0 |
| magick.net-q16-hdri-x64 | — | 14.15.0 |
| magick.net-q16-hdri-x86 | — | 14.15.0 |
| magick.net-q16-openmp-arm64 | — | 14.15.0 |
| magick.net-q16-openmp-x64 | — | 14.15.0 |
| magick.net-q16-x64 | — | 14.15.0 |
| magick.net-q16-x86 | — | 14.15.0 |
| magick.net-q8-anycpu | — | 14.15.0 |
| magick.net-q8-arm64 | — | 14.15.0 |
| magick.net-q8-openmp-arm64 | — | 14.15.0 |
| magick.net-q8-openmp-x64 | — | 14.15.0 |
| magick.net-q8-x64 | — | 14.15.0 |
| magick.net-q8-x86 | — | 14.15.0 |
References
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