CVE-2026-109270

3.3Low

Published 12 Oct 2026 · NVD status: Awaiting Analysis · AI triage by gemini-3.8-flash

3.3Low

Attack vector: Local
Complexity: Low
Privileges needed: Low
User interaction: None
Impact: Limited impact
Weakness: CWE-401

Impact

Local attackers with system access can degrade service or cause denial of service via memory exhaustion. They achieve this by repeatedly calling ImageMagick using the -process flag with crafted arguments.

Root cause

The -process option fails to release memory allocations when processing specific arguments, creating a memory leak.

Affected systems

ImageMagick before version 7.1.2-32

CVSS v3.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Fix & remediation

Upgrade ImageMagick to version 7.1.2-32 or newer. If you cannot patch immediately, disable or sanitize user-supplied arguments to the -process command-line option in your application wrapper.

shell

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade imagemagick

AI-suggested. Run it in staging first and check it against the vendor advisory. Why?

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NVD description

ImageMagick before 7.1.2-32 contains a memory leak vulnerability in the -process option that allows attackers to cause unreleased memory allocations by supplying certain arguments. Attackers can repeatedly invoke the -process option with crafted arguments to gradually exhaust memory and degrade service availability.

References

Source: nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-109270