CVE-2026-25638 PUBLISHED

ImageMagick has memory leak in msl encoder

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 04.02.2026 Published: 24.02.2026 Updated: 24.02.2026

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, memory leak exists in coders/msl.c. In the WriteMSLImage function of the msl.c file, resources are allocated. But the function returns early without releasing these allocated resources. Versions 7.1.2-15 and 6.9.13-40 contain a patch.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS Score: 5.3

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	None
Privileges Required	None	Integrity Impact	None
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	Low

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	ImageMagick
Product	ImageMagick
Versions	Version >= 7.0.0, < 7.1.2-15 is affected Version < 6.9.13-40 is affected

References

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-gxcx-qjqp-8vjw

Problem Types

CWE-401: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime CWE