CVE-2026-33902: imagemagick Uncontrolled Recursion
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2026-33902 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in imagemagick. EPSS estimates a 0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9.6% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 3 · Related 3Timeline
- 13-04-2026PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 14-04-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
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.
CVSS metrics
5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · NugetEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVDNIST5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.20%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
10%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
+0.06 pp
From 0.14% on 19-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
NuGet17 products
- magick.net-q16-anycpu< 14.12.0
- Magick.NET-Q16-arm64< 14.12.0
- magick.net-q16-hdri-anycpu< 14.12.0
- Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-arm64< 14.12.0
- Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64< 14.12.0
Debian1 product
- imagemagick< 8:7.1.1.43+dfsg1-1+deb13u8 | < 8:7.1.2.19+dfsg1-1
Imagemagick1 product
- imagemagick< 7.1.2-19 | < 6.9.13-44 | ≥ 7.0.0-0, < 7.1.2-19
Ubuntu1 product
- imagemagickAll versions (No fix recorded)
4 vendors · 20 products
References
9 links- github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-f4qm-vj5j-9xpwX Refsource CONFIRMREPORTWEBVendor Advisory
- github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/d3c0a37485314c5ccef72efb18f3847cd53868baX Refsource MISCREPORTWEBPatch