CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-55298

8.8 HIGH Published 2025-08-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-08-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-123, CWE-134

Description

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to ImageMagick versions 6.9.13-28 and 7.1.2-2, a format string bug vulnerability exists in InterpretImageFilename function where user input is directly passed to FormatLocaleString without proper sanitization. An attacker can overwrite arbitrary memory regions, enabling a wide range of attacks from heap overflow to remote code execution. This issue has been patched in versions 6.9.13-28 and 7.1.2-2.

Affected configurations

• imagemagick imagemagick (< 6.9.13-28) • imagemagick imagemagick (>= 7.0.0-0 < 7.1.2-2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-123 Write-what-where Condition weakness
  • CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String weakness

References