CVE-2026-93587: imagemagick Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2026-93587 is a medium (CVSS 4.8) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in imagemagick. EPSS estimates a 0.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 1.7% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 7 · Related 7Timeline
- 18-09-2026PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 18-09-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
ImageMagick before 7.1.2-31 and before 6.9.13-56 contains a policy bypass in the PCD (and, per the upstream advisory, CUBE and HALD) coder: when a specific command line option is supplied, the decoder does not check a configured resource limit, which can result in extra memory allocation. A local user able to pass command line options to ImageMagick can therefore exceed the intended memory policy limit, causing a limited availability impact. The issue is fixed in 7.1.2-31 and 6.9.13-56.
CVSS metrics
7 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated4.8MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated4.8MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/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
- NVDNIST4.8MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/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
- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated3.3LowCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- NVDNIST3.3LowCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS trend
Probability
0.12%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
2%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
+0.01 pp
From 0.11% on 21-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Debian1 product
- imagemagickAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 8:7.1.2.31+dfsg1-1
Imagemagick1 product
- imagemagick< 7.1.2-31 | < 6.9.13-56 | ≥ 7.0.0-0, < 7.1.2-31
Ubuntu1 product
- imagemagick< 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu11.11+esm16 | < 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3ubuntu0.22.04.5+esm16 | < 8:6.9.12.98+dfsg1-5.2ubuntu0.1~esm15 | < 8:7.1.2.18+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.1~esm4
3 vendors · 3 products
References
6 links- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/imagemagick-before-7.1.2-31-policy-bypass-via-pcd-decoderThird Party AdvisoryREPORT
