CVE-2026-40311

ImageMagick: Heap-use-after-free via XMP profile could result in a crash when printing values

Published: 4/13/2026 Last updated: 4/14/2026 Reserved: 4/10/2026

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Versions below 7.1.2-19 and 6.9.13-44 contain a heap use-after-free vulnerability that can cause a crash when reading and printing values from an invalid XMP profile. This issue has been fixed in versions 6.9.13-44 and 7.1.2-19.

CNA assigner: GitHub_M (a0819718-46f1-4df5-94e2-005712e83aaa) Requested by: n/a

Metrics

Version	Score	Severity	Vector String
3.1	5.5	Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Opam packages affected (2)

conf-libMagickCore ocsigen-start

Products affected (1)

Product	Vendor	Version
ImageMagick	ImageMagick	n/a

References (4)

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-r83h-crwp-3vm7
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/5facfecf1abb3fed46a08f614dcc43d1e548e20d
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/releases/tag/7.1.2-19
https://github.com/dlemstra/Magick.NET/releases/tag/14.12.0