CVE-2026-28494 ImageMagick affected by stack corruption through long morphology kernel names or arrays

What is CVE-2026-28494?

CVE-2026-28494 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Imagemagick Imagemagick, published on 9 Mar 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 7.1.2-16 and 6.9.13-41, a stack buffer overflow exists in ImageMagick's morphology kernel parsing functions. User-controlled kernel strings exceeding a buffer are copied into fixed-size stack buffers via memcpy without bounds checking, resulting in stack corruption. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.1.2-16 and 6.9.13-41.

Weakness: CWE-121

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-28494?

38 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-2026-28494?

Upgrade Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU to 14.10.4 or later.

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

Is CVE-2026-28494 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-28494 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-2026-1785857185, CLSA-2026-1785945472, CLSA-2026-1786007261, DEBIAN-CVE-2026-28494, ECHO-2fa4-eedc-fbcc, GHSA-932h-jw47-73jm and 3 more.