🛡️ CVE-2026-61857 on Ubuntu — imagemagick

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV

N/A

CVSS Score

0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

ImageMagick before 7.1.2-26 contains a heap use-after-free vulnerability caused by missing null check when parsing XMP profiles. Attackers can craft malicious image files with specially crafted XMP data to trigger the vulnerability and cause application crashes.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2026-61857 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 high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability low.

Weakness class

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-61857 is classified as CWE-252: Unchecked Return Value. A return value signalling failure is ignored, and execution continues as though the operation had succeeded.

Affected software

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-61857 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:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/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-2026-61857

REPORT https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-61857

REPORT https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-qh5g-q395-cx4j

REPORT https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/imagemagick-before-26-heap-use-after-free-via-xmp

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