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ImageMagick CVE-2026-53463

| EUVDEUVD-2026-36190 MEDIUM
NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476)
2026-06-10 GitHub_M GHSA-p9rq-q46c-g4x6
Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Imagemagick
4.3
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: GitHub_M
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Vendor (GitHub_M) PRIMARY
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
vuln.today AI
4.3 MEDIUM

Network-reachable via crafted image, no privileges needed, user interaction required to process the file, and impact is strictly a low-severity availability crash with no C or I impact.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SUSE
5.5 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Red Hat
6.5 MEDIUM
qualitative

Primary rating from Vendor (GitHub_M).

CVSS VectorVendor: GitHub_M

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low

Lifecycle Timeline

2
Patch available
Jun 26, 2026 - 19:02 EUVD
Analysis Generated
Jun 10, 2026 - 22:55 vuln.today

DescriptionCVE.org

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, when passing incorrect arguments in the distort operation a null pointer deference will occur. This issue has been patched in versions 6.9.13-50 and 7.1.2-25.

AnalysisAI

Null pointer dereference in ImageMagick's distort operation crashes the processing process when an attacker supplies malformed distort arguments via a crafted image. Affected are all ImageMagick 6.x versions prior to 6.9.13-50 and all 7.x versions prior to 7.1.2-25. An unauthenticated remote attacker who can cause a target application to process a specially crafted image can trigger a DoS; no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and this vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Technical ContextAI

ImageMagick is a widely-deployed open-source image processing library (CPE: cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*) used by countless web applications, content pipelines, and developer tools to transform images. The distort operation applies geometric transformations (e.g., perspective, arc, barrel) to images. CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference) arises here because the distort code path does not validate or null-check the argument structure before dereferencing it; supplying unexpected or malformed argument values results in a dereference of a NULL pointer, causing an immediate process abort. This class of bug is common in C/C++ image-processing codebases where argument parsing assumes well-formed input.

RemediationAI

Upgrade to ImageMagick 6.9.13-50 (6.x branch) or 7.1.2-25 (7.x branch) as documented in the vendor advisory at https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-p9rq-q46c-g4x6. For deployments that cannot patch immediately, a compensating control is to restrict or sanitize the use of the distort operation - specifically, validate that distort arguments are within expected numeric ranges and types before passing them to ImageMagick, or disable distort functionality at the application layer entirely if it is not required. Another option is to run ImageMagick in a sandboxed process (e.g., via a subprocess with strict resource limits and a seccomp profile) so that a crash does not affect the parent application's availability. Note that the sandbox approach does not prevent the crash itself but limits the service-level impact.

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Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: Moderate
Product Status
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP7 Not-Affected

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