CVE-2026-61861 ImageMagick before 7.1.2-26 Use-After-Free in FormatMagickCaption

What is CVE-2026-61861?

CVE-2026-61861 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Imagemagick Imagemagick, published on 11 Jul 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

ImageMagick before 7.1.2-26 contains a use-after-free vulnerability in the FormatMagickCaption method when memory allocation fails. Attackers can trigger memory allocation failures to cause a dangling pointer to reference freed memory, potentially enabling denial of service or code execution.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-61861?

34 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-2026-61861?

Upgrade Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU to 14.15.0 or later.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2026-61861 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-61861 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
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2026-61861, ECHO-39af-2f5f-cbf0, GHSA-qvxh-prvr-85w2, GHSA-vg96-jmxw-665f, JLSEC-2026-1067, MINI-753v-8h6j-gwq5 and 2 more.