ImageMagick before 7.1.2-19 contains an off-by-one error in morphology validation allowing out-of-bounds heap buffer reads. Attackers can trigger heap buffer overflow by providing incorrect morphology parameters causing single pixel memory access violations.
CVE-2026-56361
Score 3.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-07-01. NVD baseline CVSS 7.1; sources differ by 3.8.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 7.1
- EG Score
- 3.3(medium)
- EPSS
- 2.8%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 1, 2026
Last Modified
July 2, 2026
Advisory Details (2)
Auto-updated Jul 2, 2026ImageMagick - Heap Buffer Overflow via Off-by-One in Morphology Processing | Advisories | VulnCheck
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/imagemagick-heap-buffer-overflow-via-off-by-one-in-morphology-processingOff-by-one origin validation in allows out-of-bounds read in morphology processing · Advisory · ImageMagick/ImageMagick · GitHub
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-q8h3-jv9v-57qxVendor Advisories for CVE-2026-56361(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 13× in last 7d / 13× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-06 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 02:23 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 02:23 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-04 08:09 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-04 08:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-04 06:31 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-04 06:31 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-02 20:05 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 7.1 · severity → HIGH
- 2026-07-01 17:06 UTCNVD updateCVSS v4 → 4.8 · severity → LOW
- 2026-07-01 15:07 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-01 01:20 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-01 01:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
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