{"id":"CVE-2026-109260","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-109260","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:02:50.555Z","title":"ImageMagick before 6.9.13-57 and 7.x before 7.1.2-32 contains a memory leak in the PNG encoder, which does not release allocated memory when libpng initialization fails.","description":"ImageMagick before 6.9.13-57 and 7.x before 7.1.2-32 contains a memory leak in the PNG encoder, which does not release allocated memory when libpng initialization fails. Attackers who can repeatedly trigger PNG encoding operations in which libpng initialization fails can exhaust memory and cause a denial of service.","published":"2026-10-12T17:17:18.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-15T15:55:46.000Z","status":"Awaiting Analysis","sourceIdentifier":"disclosure@vulncheck.com","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":6.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-401"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00366,"percentile":0.30238,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-10-13","score":0.00366,"percentile":0.28608}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.37%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-12T17:17:18.000Z","detail":{"score":"6.3","severity":"MEDIUM","publishedAt":"2026-10-12T17:17:17.730Z"},"summary":"New CVE, medium severity (CVSS 6.3)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/fd1b9c85f2634e34034d39016ed7542ac0a19930","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-hvwf-wmm6-hvc3","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/55346382cebdf5c5fa6c544a7df7ae4910ffb090","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/imagemagick-before-6.9.13-57-and-7-x-before-7.1.2-32-memory-leak-in-png-encoder","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-109260","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}