CVE-2025-53019 ImageMagick has Memory Leak in magick stream

What is CVE-2025-53019?

CVE-2025-53019 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Imagemagick Imagemagick, published on 14 Jul 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. In versions prior to 7.1.2-0 and 6.9.13-26, in ImageMagick's `magick stream` command, specifying multiple consecutive `%d` format specifiers in a filename template causes a memory leak. Versions 7.1.2-0 and 6.9.13-26 fix the issue.

Weakness: CWE-401, CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-53019?

36 open source packages ship an affected version, including Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU, Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU and Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64. It affects 1 product.

Products include Imagemagick Imagemagick.

How do I fix CVE-2025-53019?

Upgrade Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU to 14.7.0 or later.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2025-53019 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-53019 exists.

Other vulnerabilities in Imagemagick Imagemagick

• CVE-2019-19952 Use after free in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-16328 Null dereference in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-16329 Null dereference in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-18210 Null dereference in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-14138 Denial of service in n/a Critical 9.8

All Imagemagick Imagemagick vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as CLSA-2025-1759145639, CLSA-2025-1759145882, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-53019, ECHO-6225-ad22-dd52, GHSA-cfh4-9f7v-fhrc, JLSEC-2026-917 and 2 more.