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ImageMagick: Use-After-Free when freetype initialization failsGHSA-6jwg-7q3p-5fqm

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GHSA-6jwg-7q3p-5fqm is a low-severity (CVSS 3.7) 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.

Also known asCVE-2026-61860
Published
Updated
Affected
17 pkgs
Patched
17 / 17
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Oct 23, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

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 GHSA-6jwg-7q3p-5fqm.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.4%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs28th percentile — riskier than 28% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.28%0.57%0.85%0.2%0.2%0.4%0.4%Aug 26Oct 26Oct 26

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

How urgent is this, really

GHSA-6jwg-7q3p-5fqm by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.

Where this sits among everything scored

Of 395,249 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.

Real-World Exposure

17 pkgs affected
.NETMagick.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 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 before 7.1.2-26 and 6.9.13-51 contains a use-after-free vulnerability that occurs when freetype initialization fails: the method does not exit and continues to use memory that was already freed. This can be triggered during image processing and may lead to a denial of service.

Affected Packages

17 total 17 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
.NETNuGetMagick.NET-Q16-AnyCPUall versions14.15.0dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU --version 14.15.0
.NETNuGetMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPUall versions14.15.0dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU --version 14.15.0
.NETNuGetMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64all versions14.15.0dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64 --version 14.15.0
.NETNuGetMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64all versions14.15.0dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64 --version 14.15.0
.NETNuGetMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x86all versions14.15.0dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x86 --version 14.15.0
.NETNuGetMagick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-arm64all versions14.15.0dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-arm64 --version 14.15.0

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 14.15.0 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-6jwg-7q3p-5fqm is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. 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.

Red HatLow

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ships ImageMagick in RHEL 6 ELS and RHEL 7 ELS. This flaw has been rated as having a Low security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates of those products. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification:…

Workaround published by Red Hat
Do not process untrusted image files with ImageMagick. If font rendering via FreeType is not needed, the TTF and OTF coders can be disabled in ImageMagick's policy.xml: `<policy domain="coder" rights="none" pattern="{TTF,OTF}"/>`. Upgrade to ImageMagick 7.1.2-26 or 6.9.13-51 mitigates the issue.
Source: Red Hat security advisory for GHSA-6jwg-7q3p-5fqm (CC BY 4.0)

Frequently Asked Questions

When the freetype initialization fails the method does not exit and uses memory that was freed.
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