CVE-2026-30931 ImageMagick has a heap-based buffer overflow in UHDR encoder

What is CVE-2026-30931?

CVE-2026-30931 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Imagemagick Imagemagick, published on 9 Mar 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 7.1.2-16, a heap-based buffer overflow in the UHDR encoder can happen due to truncation of a value and it would allow an out of bounds write. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.1.2-16.

Weakness: CWE-122

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-30931?

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-2026-30931?

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-2026-30931 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-30931 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-2026-30931, ECHO-ec17-f27d-4cc9, GHSA-h95r-c8c7-mrwx, JLSEC-2026-984, MINI-746j-7fqg-mcgw, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-30931.