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CVE-2026-28687 — Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU

MEDIUM

CVE-2026-28687 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.3) Use After Free vulnerability in Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU. A fix is available for Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU — see the affected versions and patch details below.

ImageMagick has a Heap Use-After-Free in ImageMagick MSL decoder

Also known asGHSA-fpvf-frm6-625q
Published
Updated
Affected
19 pkgs
Patched
19 / 19
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Nov 5, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

No confirmed exploitation observed yet

  • CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
  • CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.

Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2026-28687.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.3%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk-0.12%
Lower risk than most CVEs20th percentile — riskier than 20% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.30%0.60%0.90%0.1%0.3%May 26Aug 26Nov 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

Where this sits among everything scored

Real-World Exposure

19 pkgs affected
.NETMagick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU.NETMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU.NETMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64.NETMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-arm64.NETMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64.NETMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x86.NETMagick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-arm64.NETMagick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-x64+11 more

Real-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects NuGet packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.

Description

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 7.1.2-16 and 6.9.13-41, a heap use-after-free vulnerability in ImageMagick's MSL decoder allows an attacker to trigger access to freed memory by crafting an MSL file. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.1.2-16 and 6.9.13-41.

Affected Packages

19 total 19 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
.NETNuGetMagick.NET-Q16-AnyCPUall versions14.10.4dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU --version 14.10.4
.NETNuGetMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPUall versions14.10.4dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU --version 14.10.4
.NETNuGetMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64all versions14.10.4dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64 --version 14.10.4
.NETNuGetMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-arm64all versions14.10.4dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-arm64 --version 14.10.4
.NETNuGetMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64all versions14.10.4dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64 --version 14.10.4
.NETNuGetMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x86all versions14.10.4dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x86 --version 14.10.4

Affected Products

1 product · 2 configurations
Application
imagemagickimagemagick
≥ 7.0.0-0 && < 7.1.2-16
range

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU to 14.10.4 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2026-28687 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    Stop feeding it untrusted input: reject or quarantine files and payloads from unverified sources until you can upgrade, restrict accepted formats to the ones you actually need, and run the parsing or decoding step in a least-privileged sandbox or short-lived worker so a crash or corrupted read cannot reach the rest of the process.

Fixing This On Your OS

If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.

Red HatModerate

MODERATE: This flaw in ImageMagick's MSL decoder allows an attacker to trigger access to freed memory by processing a specially crafted MSL file. This could lead to application crashes or potentially arbitrary code execution. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ELS and 7 ELS are affected by this vulnerability.

Workaround published by Red Hat
To reduce the risk of exploitation, avoid processing untrusted or suspicious MSL files with ImageMagick. Implement strict input validation and ensure that ImageMagick only processes files from trusted sources. If ImageMagick is deployed in a server environment, consider isolating the application within a sandboxed environment to limit potential impact.
Source: Red Hat security advisory for CVE-2026-28687 (CC BY 4.0)

Frequently Asked Questions

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 7.1.2-16 and 6.9.13-41, a heap use-after-free vulnerability in ImageMagick's MSL decoder allows an attacker to trigger access to freed memory by crafting an MSL file. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.1.2-16 and 6.9.13-41.
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CVE-2026-28687: Magick.NET-Q16 — Fixed in 14.10.4