🛡️ CVE-2026-61465 on Ubuntu — imagemagick

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV

N/A

CVSS Score

0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

ImageMagick before 7.1.2-26 and 6.9.13-51 is missing a check for the allowed memory allocation limit in matrix-backed operations such as -canny. An attacker can supply a crafted image that causes ImageMagick to allocate more memory than permitted by the configured policy, resulting in a denial of service.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2026-61465 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. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability low.

Weakness class

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-61465 is classified as CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits. Resources are allocated on request with no cap, so a client can exhaust them.

Affected software

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-61465 is recorded against 1 package.

imagemagick

Timeline and source

Published on 11 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)
www.vulncheck.com (Report)

Details

Severity Unknown

CVSS Score N/A

CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CWE N/A

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source OSV

Published 2026-07-11

Updated 2026-08-11

Modified 2026-08-10

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
imagemagick	—	—

References

REPORT https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-61465

REPORT https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-61465

REPORT https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-rvhp-75f6-9jqh

REPORT https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/imagemagick-before-26-memory-allocation-policy-bypass

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