ImageMagick before 6.9.13-58 and 7.x before 7.1.2-33 contains a stack-based buffer overflow in the handling of bzip2 compressed images.

Assessment

CVSS

7.2 (v4.0)

Severity

High

Known exploited

Not listed in CISA KEV

Exploit availability

Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories

Published

25 October 2026

Last updated

29 October 2026

Weakness

CWE-121

Assigner

disclosure@vulncheck.com

CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

At the source

• NVD

References

• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-pwpf-8799-94cj
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/imagemagick-before-6.9.13-58-and-7-x-before-7.1.2-33-stack-buffer-overflow-via-bzip2-compressed-images

Query this programmatically

Agents can read this through the MCP endpoint, or over HTTP:

curl https://cve.zerocrew.in/api/cve/CVE-2026-116149