CVE-2026-40169mediumCWE-122CWE-787

CVE-2026-40169: medium-severity vulnerability in ImageMagick

ImageMagick: Heap buffer overflow (WRITE) in the YAML and JSON encoders

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13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 6.2epss 0.2%
ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. In versions below 7.1.2-19, a crafted image could result in an out of bounds heap write when writing a yaml or json output, resulting in a crash. This issue has been fixed in version 7.1.2-19.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
ImageMagick · ImageMagick
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