Is there a patch available for CVE-2026-61862?

Yes, a patch is available for CVE-2026-61862. Update the affected software to the latest version immediately.

ImageMagick CVE-2026-61862

Q: What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-61862?

CVE-2026-61862 has a CVSS 4.0 base score of 2.1 (Low). CVSS vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X. EPSS exploitation probability: 0.1%.

EUVD-2026-44611 LOW

Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)

2026-07-15 VulnCheck

GHSA-wh42-3hf2-jj9p

Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure Imagemagick

2.1

CVSS 4.0 · Vendor: VulnCheck

Severity by source

Vendor (VulnCheck) PRIMARY

2.1 LOW

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

vuln.today AI

2.9 LOW

Local access required to invoke identify; debug mode and non-printable profile terminal byte are specific high-complexity preconditions; only minimal confidentiality impact from one byte.

3.1 AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

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

Primary rating from Vendor (VulnCheck).

CVSS VectorVendor: VulnCheck

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Lifecycle Timeline

Patch available

Jul 15, 2026 - 13:03 EUVD

Analysis Generated

Jul 15, 2026 - 12:33 vuln.today

CVE Published

Jul 15, 2026 - 11:25 cve.org

LOW 2.1

DescriptionCVE.org

ImageMagick before 7.1.2-26 and 6.9.13-51 contains an information disclosure vulnerability: when a profile is displayed with the identify command and the profile value is not printable, a single byte at the end of the profile can be printed (read past the profile boundary). This behavior occurs when debug output is enabled.

AnalysisAI

ImageMagick before 7.1.2-26 (7.x branch) and 6.9.13-51 (6.x branch) discloses one byte of process memory beyond a profile boundary when the identify command is run with debug output enabled and the embedded profile ends with a non-printable byte. The out-of-bounds read (CWE-125) is highly conditional - requiring local access, explicit debug mode activation, and a specifically crafted profile payload - keeping real-world impact extremely low despite ImageMagick's broad deployment footprint. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis.

Technical ContextAI

ImageMagick is an open-source image processing suite used extensively in web application backends and server-side pipelines via CLI invocation and its MagickCore/MagickWand library bindings. The vulnerability resides in the profile-display logic of the identify command, which renders embedded metadata profiles such as EXIF, ICC, and IPTC. CWE-125 (Out-of-bounds Read) is the root cause: when a profile's terminal byte is non-printable, the display routine advances one position past the allocated profile buffer before returning, exposing a single byte of adjacent process memory. This off-by-one read is gated on debug output being enabled, a non-default operational mode. Affected CPEs are cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* spanning both the 6.x branch (before 6.9.13-51) and the 7.x branch (before 7.1.2-26).

RemediationAI

Upgrade to ImageMagick 7.1.2-26 or later for 7.x deployments, or to 6.9.13-51 or later for 6.x deployments, as documented in the vendor advisory at https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-hwf3-r46v-5ggx. The patch corrects the off-by-one read in the profile display routine. As an immediate compensating control, remove or disable the debug output flag from any identify invocations that process untrusted image input - this directly eliminates the triggering condition without requiring a software upgrade, though it sacrifices debug visibility in those pipelines. Restricting automated pipelines from running identify with debug flags on user-supplied images is the most practical interim mitigation, with no functional side effects on normal image processing workflows.