ImageMagick has a heap-buffer-overflow

CVE-2025-68469 → View on GitHub ↗ View on CVE.org ↗ View on NVD ↗

Description

Summary

While Processing a crafted TIFF file, imagemagick crashes.

Details

Following is the imagemagick version:

imagemagick_git/build_26jun23/bin/magick --version
Version: ImageMagick 7.1.1-13 (Beta) Q16-HDRI x86_64 56f478940:20230625 https://imagemagick.org
Copyright: (C) 1999 ImageMagick Studio LLC
License: https://imagemagick.org/script/license.php
Features: Cipher DPC HDRI 
Delegates (built-in): fontconfig freetype jbig jng jpeg lcms lzma pangocairo png tiff webp x xml zlib
Compiler: gcc (4.2)

PoC

issue can be replicated with following command with provided POC file(sent over email):

magick poc.tiff /dev/null

Impact

This can lead to application crash.

Credits

Please give credits to Hardik shah of Vehere (Dawn Treaders team)

Basic information

Type
reviewed
Severity
low
Advisory on GitHub
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Repository advisory
Open repository advisory ↗
Source code
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Published (advisory)
2025-08-25 15:54:51 UTC
Updated
2025-12-31 22:18:05 UTC
GitHub reviewed
2025-08-25 15:54:51 UTC
NVD published
2025-12-18

EPSS Score

Score Percentile
0.03% 7.92%

CVSS Scores

Base score Version Severity Vector
3.3 3.1 —
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:L)
Might cause slowdowns, glitches, or partial disruption—not a full brick.
1.1 4.0 —
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
Attacker needs local access on the target system.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and stable.
Attack requirements (AT:N)
No additional preconditions are required beyond normal reachability.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No privileges are required.
User interaction (UI:P)
A user has to participate (for example click/open/approve).
Vulnerable system confidentiality impact (VC:N)
No confidentiality impact on the vulnerable system.
Vulnerable system integrity impact (VI:N)
No integrity impact on the vulnerable system.
Vulnerable system availability impact (VA:L)
Limited availability impact on the vulnerable system.
Subsequent system confidentiality impact (SC:N)
No confidentiality impact on subsequent systems.
Subsequent system integrity impact (SI:N)
No integrity impact on subsequent systems.
Subsequent system availability impact (SA:N)
No availability impact on subsequent systems.
Exploit maturity (threat) (E:U)
Unreported: no public PoC, no reported exploitation, and no known simplification tools.

Identifiers

Type Value
GHSA GHSA-fff3-4rp7-px97 ↗
CVE CVE-2025-68469 ↗

CWEs

CWE id Name
CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Credits

  • hardik05 (reporter)

Affected packages (18)

Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.

Ecosystem Package Vulnerable range First patched Vulnerable functions
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU < 13.2.0 13.2.0 —
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU < 13.2.0 13.2.0 —
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64 < 13.2.0 13.2.0 —
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-x64 < 13.2.0 13.2.0 —
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-arm64 < 13.2.0 13.2.0 —
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64 < 13.2.0 13.2.0 —
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x86 < 13.2.0 13.2.0 —
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-arm64 < 13.2.0 13.2.0 —
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-x64 < 13.2.0 13.2.0 —
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-arm64 < 13.2.0 13.2.0 —
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-x64 < 13.2.0 13.2.0 —
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-x86 < 13.2.0 13.2.0 —
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-AnyCPU < 13.2.0 13.2.0 —
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-arm64 < 13.2.0 13.2.0 —
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-x64 < 13.2.0 13.2.0 —
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-arm64 < 13.2.0 13.2.0 —
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-x64 < 13.2.0 13.2.0 —
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-x86 < 13.2.0 13.2.0 —

References

cvelogic Threat Intelligence