ImageMagick up to 6.9.13-43/7.1.2-18 Image Parser recursion

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in ImageMagick up to 6.9.13-43/7.1.2-18. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Image Parser. The manipulation leads to recursion. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-33902. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in ImageMagick up to 6.9.13-43/7.1.2-18 and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Image Parser. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a recursion vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-674. The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. In versions below both 7.1.2-19 and 6.9.13-44, a stack overflow vulnerability in ImageMagick's FX expression parser allows an attacker to crash the process by providing a deeply nested expression. This issue has been fixed in versions 6.9.13-44 and 7.1.2-19.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-33902 since 03/24/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 6.9.13-44 or 7.1.2-19 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying the patch d3c0a37485314c5ccef72efb18f3847cd53868ba is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• Image Processing Software

Name

• ImageMagick

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• 6.9.13-43
• 7.1.2-18

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://www.imagemagick.org/

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