🛡️ CVE-2026-55597 on Ubuntu — imagemagick

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to version 7.1.2-26, an incorrect handling of arguments can cause a heap buffer over-write in the JP2 encoder. This issue has been fixed in version7.1.2-26.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2026-55597 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 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.

Affected software

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-55597 is recorded against 1 package.

  • imagemagick

Timeline and source

Published on 1 July 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)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-07-01
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-08-10
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
imagemagick — —

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