CVE-2026-26066

ImageMagick has infinite loop when writing IPTCTEXT leads to denial of service via crafted profile

State: Published
Severity: 6.2 Medium
Published: Feb 24, 2026
Updated: Jun 23, 2026
Reserved: Feb 10, 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, a crafted profile contain invalid IPTC data may cause an infinite loop when writing it with `IPTCTEXT`. 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-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

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-v994-63cg-9wj3

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