CVE-2026-42326 ImageMagick: Heap Buffer Over-Read in IPTC encoder

What is CVE-2026-42326?

CVE-2026-42326 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Imagemagick Imagemagick, published on 10 Jun 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 6.9.13-47 and 7.1.2-22, when writing an IPTC output file a malicious input file could cause an out of bounds read of a single byte. This issue has been patched in versions 6.9.13-47 and 7.1.2-22.

Weakness: CWE-191, CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-42326?

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-2026-42326?

Upgrade Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU to 14.13.1 or later.

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

Is CVE-2026-42326 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-42326 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-2026-42326, ECHO-5273-c4a4-86bd, GHSA-7wff-wpr6-vmhm, JLSEC-2026-1006, MINI-r95j-cx3p-p8gq, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-42326.