CVE-2026-25971

ImageMagick's MSL: Stack overflow in ProcessMSLScript

State: Published
Severity: 6.2 Medium
Published: Feb 24, 2026
Updated: Jun 23, 2026
Reserved: Feb 9, 2026

Description

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 7.1.2-15 and 6.9.13-40, Magick fails to check for circular references between two MSLs, leading to a stack overflow. Versions 7.1.2-15 and 6.9.13-40 contain a patch.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.2 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion

Affected Products

Product	Versions
ImageMagickImageMagick	>= 7.0.0, < 7.1.2-15Affected < 6.9.13-40Affected

References

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-8mpr-6xr2-chhc

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