CVE-2026-56368 ImageMagick - Memory Leak in Raw Pixel Data Coders

What is CVE-2026-56368?

CVE-2026-56368 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Imagemagick Imagemagick, published on 24 Jun 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

ImageMagick before 7.1.2-15 contains a memory leak vulnerability in multiple coders that write raw pixel data where allocated objects are not properly freed. Attackers can trigger this leak by processing specially crafted images, causing memory exhaustion and denial of service.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-56368?

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-2026-56368?

Upgrade Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU to 14.10.3 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-2026-56368 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-56368 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-2026-56368, ECHO-8413-bf93-7dc1, GHSA-wfx3-6g53-9fgc, JLSEC-2026-1049, MINI-f3fv-px84-hj3x, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-56368.