CVE-2025-68950 Magick's failure to limit MVG mutual references forming a loop

What is CVE-2025-68950?

CVE-2025-68950 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Imagemagick Imagemagick, published on 30 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to version 7.1.2-12, Magick fails to check for circular references between two MVGs, leading to a stack overflow. This is a DoS vulnerability, and any situation that allows reading the mvg file will be affected. Version 7.1.2-12 fixes the issue.

Weakness: CWE-674

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-68950?

34 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-2025-68950?

Upgrade Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU to 14.10.1 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-2025-68950 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-68950 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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-2026-1771868375, CLSA-2026-1771951235, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68950, ECHO-7abf-6014-4f67, GHSA-7rvh-xqp3-pr8j, JLSEC-2026-932 and 2 more.