CVE-2026-30931 — Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU
MEDIUMCVE-2026-30931 is a medium-severity (CVSS 6.8) CWE-122 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-based buffer overflow in UHDR 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-2026-30931.
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
A heap-based buffer overflow in the UHDR encoder can happen due to truncation of a value and it would allow an out of bounds write.
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==2158399==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x521000039500 at pc 0x562a4a42f968 bp 0x7ffcca4ed6c0 sp 0x7ffcca4ed6b0
WRITE of size 1 at 0x521000039500 thread T0
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-2026-30931 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
Constrain what reaches the vulnerable code: limit the size and shape of untrusted input, isolate the affected component in a sandboxed or least-privileged process, and enable the platform's memory-safety mitigations (ASLR, stack protector, hardened allocator) so an out-of-bounds access is more likely to fail closed than to be exploitable.
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.
MODERATE: This flaw in ImageMagick involves a heap-based buffer overflow within the UHDR encoder, which could lead to an out-of-bounds write due to value truncation. This vulnerability affects systems processing untrusted image files with ImageMagick.
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.Source: Red Hat security advisory for CVE-2026-30931 (CC BY 4.0)
Frequently Asked Questions
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