CVE-2025-55298

Description

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to ImageMagick versions 6.9.13-28 and 7.1.2-2, a format string bug vulnerability exists in InterpretImageFilename function where user input is directly passed to FormatLocaleString without proper sanitization. An attacker can overwrite arbitrary memory regions, enabling a wide range of attacks from heap overflow to remote code execution. This issue has been patched in versions 6.9.13-28 and 7.1.2-2.

How to fix CVE-2025-55298

To remediate CVE-2025-55298, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

—upgrade to 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3+deb11u6 or later
—upgrade to 14.8.1 or later
—upgrade to 14.8.1 or later
—upgrade to 14.8.1 or later
—upgrade to 14.8.1 or later
—upgrade to 14.8.1 or later
—upgrade to 14.8.1 or later
—upgrade to 14.8.1 or later
—upgrade to 14.8.1 or later
—upgrade to 14.8.1 or later
—upgrade to 14.8.1 or later
—upgrade to 14.8.1 or later
—upgrade to 14.8.1 or later
—upgrade to 14.8.1 or later
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Is CVE-2025-55298 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 1.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (19)

from 0, < 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3+deb11u6
from 0, < 14.8.1
from 0, < 14.8.1
from 0, < 14.8.1
from 0, < 14.8.1
from 0, < 14.8.1
from 0, < 14.8.1
from 0, < 14.8.1
from 0, < 14.8.1
from 0, < 14.8.1

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H