ImageMagick before 7.1.2-18 contains a memory leak vulnerability in the META reader when processing APP1JPEG input paths. Attackers can trigger this memory leak by providing specially crafted APP1JPEG image files, causing denial of service through resource exhaustion.
CVE-2026-56366
Score 3.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-07-10. a secondary CVSS source baseline 3.3; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 3.3
- EG Score
- 3.3(high)
- EPSS
- 1.2%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 10, 2026
Last Modified
July 10, 2026
References (2)
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-56366(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 5× in last 7d / 5× 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.
- 2026-07-13 08:19 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-13 08:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-12 05:46 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-10 14:43 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-10 14:42 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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