CVE-2025-53101 ImageMagick has Stack Buffer Overflow in image.c

What is CVE-2025-53101?

CVE-2025-53101 is a high-severity memory corruption 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 mogrify` command, specifying multiple consecutive `%d` format specifiers in a filename template causes internal pointer arithmetic to generate an address below the beginning of the stack buffer, resulting in a stack overflow through `vsnprintf()`. Versions 7.1.2-0 and 6.9.13-26 fix the issue.

Weakness: CWE-124

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-53101?

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-2025-53101?

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

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2025-53101 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-53101 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-2025-1758289801, CLSA-2025-1758289815, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-53101, ECHO-1205-84dc-6b88, GHSA-qh3h-j545-h8c9, JLSEC-2026-918 and 2 more.