CVE-2026-56371 ImageMagick - Memory Leak in TXT File Processing via Texture Attribute

What is CVE-2026-56371?

CVE-2026-56371 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Imagemagick Imagemagick, published on 23 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 and 6.9.13-40 contains a memory leak in coders/txt.c when processing TXT files with texture attributes: the texture object allocated via ReadImage is not released when GetTypeMetrics fails, leaking memory each time a crafted TXT file with a texture attribute is processed.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-56371?

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-2026-56371?

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-2026-56371 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-56371 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-2026-56371, ECHO-84b2-b2ce-8a5f, GHSA-3q5f-gmjc-38r8, JLSEC-2026-1052, MINI-rgm7-hg3w-g72h, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-56371.