CVE-2026-25797 ImageMagick vulnerable to Code injection via PostScript header in ps coders

What is CVE-2026-25797?

CVE-2026-25797 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Imagemagick Imagemagick, published on 24 Feb 2026. 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 versions 7.1.2-15 and 6.9.13-40, the ps coders, responsible for writing PostScript files, fails to sanitize the input before writing it into the PostScript header. An attacker can provide a malicous file and inject arbitrary PostScript code. When the resulting file is processed by a printer or a viewer (like Ghostscript), the injected code is interpreted and executed. The html encoder does not properly escape strings that are written to in the html document. An attacker can provide a malicious file and injection arbitrary html code. Versions 7.1.2-15 and 6.9.13-40 contain a patch.

Weakness: CWE-94

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-25797?

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-2026-25797?

Upgrade Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU to 14.10.3 or later.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2026-25797 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-25797 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 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-25797, ECHO-cebd-fb2f-c23e, GHSA-rw6c-xp26-225v, JLSEC-2026-947, MINI-w872-74mx-268q, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-25797.