CVE-2026-109268

ImageMagick before 6.9.13-57 and 7.x before 7.1.2-32 Use After Free in PDF Writer via JPEG2000

State: Published
Severity: 6.3 Medium
Published: Oct 12, 2026
Updated: Oct 13, 2026
Reserved: Oct 12, 2026

Description

ImageMagick before 6.9.13-57 and 7.x before 7.1.2-32 contains a use after free vulnerability in the PDF writer when writing CMYK images with JPEG2000 compression. Attackers can supply a crafted CMYK image that, when written to PDF with JPEG2000 compression, causes freed memory to be reused, potentially crashing the process.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	6.3 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	VulnCheck
3.1	3.7 Low	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	VulnCheck

Weaknesses

CWE-416 Use After Free

Affected Products

Product	Versions
ImageMagickImageMagick	7.0.0-0 to before 7.1.2-32Affected 7.1.2-32Not affected
ImageMagickImageMagick	before 6.9.13-57Affected 6.9.13-57Not affected

References

GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-j39j-wmxg-j8mv)vendor-advisory
Patch Commitpatch
ImageMagick6 Patch Commitpatch
VulnCheck Advisory: ImageMagick before 6.9.13-57 and 7.x before 7.1.2-32 Use After Free in PDF Writer via JPEG2000third-party-advisory

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