{"id":"CVE-2026-109261","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-109261","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:10:34.723Z","title":"ImageMagick before 6.9.13-57 and 7.x before 7.1.2-32 contains a memory leak in the GIF encoder because allocated memory is not released when color quantization fails during encoding.","description":"ImageMagick before 6.9.13-57 and 7.x before 7.1.2-32 contains a memory leak in the GIF encoder because allocated memory is not released when color quantization fails during encoding. Attackers can supply images whose GIF conversion causes quantization to fail, leaking memory with each attempt and degrading availability.","published":"2026-10-12T17:17:18.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-18T12:17:03.000Z","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":"2026-10-12T17:17:17.883Z"},"summary":"New CVE, medium severity (CVSS 6.3)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/1c7763266cfedc635005a965169bc2ddcc650221","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-w68r-6fmr-cvg4","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/93aa075f0fa5a6ae6a83a63acc7c84283aa6d31b","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-gif-encoder","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-109261","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."}