CVE-2026-28690 — Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU
MEDIUMCVE-2026-28690 is a medium-severity (CVSS 6.9) CWE-121 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 stack write buffer overflow in MNG encoder
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- 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-2026-28690.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
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
Magick.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 moreReal-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 stack buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the MNG encoder. There is a bounds checks missing that could corrupting the stack with attacker-controlled data. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.1.2-16 and 6.9.13-41.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| .NETNuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU | all versions | 14.10.4dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU --version 14.10.4 |
| .NETNuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU | all versions | 14.10.4dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU --version 14.10.4 |
| .NETNuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64 | all versions | 14.10.4dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64 --version 14.10.4 |
| .NETNuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-arm64 | all versions | 14.10.4dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-arm64 --version 14.10.4 |
| .NETNuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64 | all versions | 14.10.4dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64 --version 14.10.4 |
| .NETNuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x86 | all versions | 14.10.4dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x86 --version 14.10.4 |
Affected Products
imagemagickimagemagickDetection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
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.
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-2026-28690 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
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.
To exploit this issue, an attacker needs to convince a user to process a specially crafted file that makes ImageMagick use the MNG encoder. Default Red Hat Enterprise Linux security features, including SELinux enforcement, Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and NX (No-Execute) stack protection, significantly…
To mitigate this vulnerability, disable the vulnerable encoder by adding the following line to the ImageMagick policy.xml file, typically located in the directory /etc/ImageMagick-7/, /etc/ImageMagick-6/ or /etc/ImageMagick/: ~~~ <policy domain="coder" rights="none" pattern="MNG" /> ~~~ To reduce the risk of exploitation, avoid processing untrusted MNG files with ImageMagick. If ImageMagick is deployed in a way that it processes files from untrusted sources automatically, consider running the application inside a container or a restricted sandbox environment to limit the potential security impact.Source: Red Hat security advisory for CVE-2026-28690 (CC BY 4.0)
Frequently Asked Questions
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