🛡️ CVE-2026-53461 on Ubuntu — imagemagick

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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CVSS Score
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Description

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 6.9.13-50 and 7.1.2-25, an incorrect loop in the ICON decoder can result in an out of bounds heap write resulting in a crash. This issue has been patched in versions 6.9.13-50 and 7.1.2-25.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2026-53461 as tracked by Ubuntu, for the package imagemagick. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, 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 none, availability high.

Affected software and timeline

Affected software: imagemagick. Published on 10 June 2026 and last revised on 10 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

ubuntu.com (Report)
www.cve.org (Report)
github.com (Report)

CVE-2026-53461 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-06-10
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-08-10
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
imagemagick — —

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