[UPDATE] [low] ImageMagick: Vulnerability allows Denial of Service
A local attacker can exploit a vulnerability in ImageMagick to carry out a Denial of Service attack.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- A vulnerability allows a local attacker to carry out a Denial of Service attack.
- Who is affected
- Deployments of ImageMagick are affected.
- Urgency
- Remediation is low urgency as the severity is low.
- Action
- Update to the latest version of ImageMagick.
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Details
Original advisory: https://wid.cert-bund.de/portal/wid/securityadvisory?name=WID-SEC-2026-0191
Exploitation outlook
EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.
- Low exploitation riskCVE-2026-534660.22% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 13% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
- Low exploitation riskCVE-2026-563640.17% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 7% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-53466 | coverage & exploitation status | NVD · CVE.org |
| CVE-2026-56364 | coverage & exploitation status | NVD · CVE.org |
Same CVEs, other sources
How other CERTs, PSIRTs and databases cover the vulnerabilities in this advisory.
- mediumGHSA-pjxj-pchx-4c3m: ImageMagick: Heap Buffer Over-Read in XCF decoder due to integer conversion overflowghsa
- medium[UPDATE] [medium] ImageMagick: Multiple vulnerabilitiescert-bund
- unknownDSA-6383-1 imagemagick - security updatedebian
- mediumCVE-2026-53466: ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images.…nvd
- lowCVE-2026-56364: ImageMagick before 7.1.2-13 contains a memory leak vulnerability in LoadOpenCLDeviceBenchmark(…nvd
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