CVE-2025-55298HIGH 8.8EPSS p89.4%
CVE-2025-55298CVE-2025-55298
Description
ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to ImageMagick versions 6.9.13-28 and 7.1.2-2, a format string bug vulnerability exists in InterpretImageFilename function where user input is directly passed to FormatLocaleString without proper sanitization. An attacker can overwrite arbitrary memory regions, enabling a wide range of attacks from heap overflow to remote code execution. This issue has been patched in versions 6.9.13-28 and 7.1.2-2.
Scoring
| CVSS 3.1 | 8.8 (HIGH) |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 4.10% probability of exploitation · percentile 89.4% · 2026-06-18T12:00:27Z |
| Published | 2025-08-26 |
| Last modified | 2025-11-03 |
Underlying weaknesses· 2
References
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/439b362b93c074eea6c3f834d84982b43ef057d5
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-9ccg-6pjw-x645
- https://github.com/dlemstra/Magick.NET/releases/tag/14.8.1
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/09/msg00012.html
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-9ccg-6pjw-x645
2
| Type | Target | Confidence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Write-what-where Conditioncwe-123 | 0% | live |
| Weakness | Use of Externally-Controlled Format Stringcwe-134 | 0% | live |
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