CVE-2026-25971

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.

How to fix CVE-2026-25971

To remediate CVE-2026-25971, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

—upgrade to 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3+deb11u11 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later

Is CVE-2026-25971 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (20)

from 0, < 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3+deb11u11
from 0, < 14.10.3
from 0, < 14.10.3
from 0, < 14.10.3
from 0, < 14.10.3
from 0, < 14.10.3
from 0, < 14.10.3
from 0, < 14.10.3
from 0, < 14.10.3
from 0, < 14.10.3

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM6.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H