7.5

CVE-2025-68618: imagemagick Uncontrolled Recursion

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighAnalyzed
AliasesSUSE-SU-2026:0099-1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68618DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68618
Published 30-12-2025Last modified 30-12-2025
Open JSON

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-68618 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in imagemagick. EPSS estimates a 0.65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 50% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
40/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.65%
0%100%
Low · +0.02 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1github

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 7 · Related 8
DLA-4429-1OPENSUSE-SU-2026:10012-1OPENSUSE-SU-2026:20118-1SUSE-SU-2026:0061-1SUSE-SU-2026:0072-1SUSE-SU-2026:0073-1

Timeline

  1. 30-12-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 30-12-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to version 7.1.2-12, using Magick to read a malicious SVG file resulted in a DoS attack. Version 7.1.2-12 fixes the issue.

CVSS metrics

6 scores · 6 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.65%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

50%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.02 pp

From 0.63% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.65%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • githubUnverified

    Imagemagick

    Maturity: poc

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

NuGet17 products
  • magick.net-q16-anycpu< 14.10.1
  • Magick.NET-Q16-arm64< 14.10.1
  • magick.net-q16-hdri-anycpu< 14.10.1
  • Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-arm64< 14.10.1
  • Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64< 14.10.1
Chainguard1 product
  • imagemagick-6All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • imagemagick< 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.6+deb12u5 | < 8:7.1.1.43+dfsg1-1+deb13u4 | < 8:7.1.2.12+dfsg1-1
Imagemagick1 product
Suse1 product
  • ImageMagick&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5< 6.8.8.1-71.224.1
Ubuntu1 product
  • imagemagick< 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.13+esm17 | < 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.16+esm16 | < 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.15+esm8 | < 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu11.11+esm6 | < 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3ubuntu0.22.04.5+esm6 | < 8:6.9.12.98+dfsg1-5.2ubuntu0.1~esm5 | All versions (No fix recorded)

6 vendors · 22 products

References

12 links
Show all 12 references