CVE-2026-53467 — Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU
MEDIUMCVE-2026-53467 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.3) Information Exposure vulnerability in Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU. A fix is available for Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU — see the affected versions and patch details below.
ImageMagick: Information Disclosure in MNG decoder because allocated memory is left unchanged
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-2026-53467.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2026-53467 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 385,738 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Real-World Exposure
Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU.NETMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU.NETMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64.NETMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64.NETMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x86.NETMagick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-arm64.NETMagick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-x64.NETMagick.NET-Q16-arm64+9 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 6.9.13-51 and 7.1.2-26, the MNG decoder contains a possible heap information disclosure vulnerability because part of the pixels are left unchanged. This issue has been fixed in versions 6.9.13-51 and 7.1.2-26.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| .NETNuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU | all versions | 14.15.0dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU --version 14.15.0 |
| .NETNuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU | all versions | 14.15.0dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU --version 14.15.0 |
| .NETNuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64 | all versions | 14.15.0dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64 --version 14.15.0 |
| .NETNuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64 | all versions | 14.15.0dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64 --version 14.15.0 |
| .NETNuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x86 | all versions | 14.15.0dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x86 --version 14.15.0 |
| .NETNuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-arm64 | all versions | 14.15.0dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-arm64 --version 14.15.0 |
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 14.15.0 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2026-53467 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
Assume what was exposed is already known: rotate any credential, token or key that the affected component could return, restrict the endpoint to callers that genuinely need it, and strip sensitive fields from responses and error output at the boundary rather than relying on the client not to read them.
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.
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-2026-53467 (CC BY 4.0)
Frequently Asked Questions
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