CVE-2025-55298
HIGH7.5EPSS 1.0%ImageMagick has a Format String Bug in InterpretImageFilename leads to arbitrary code execution
Published: 8/26/2025Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (19)
- Debian/imagemagickfrom 0, < 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3+deb11u6
- NuGet/Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPUfrom 0, < 14.8.1
- NuGet/Magick.NET-Q16-arm64from 0, < 14.8.1
- NuGet/Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPUfrom 0, < 14.8.1
- NuGet/Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-arm64from 0, < 14.8.1
- NuGet/Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64from 0, < 14.8.1
- NuGet/Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-x64from 0, < 14.8.1
- NuGet/Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64from 0, < 14.8.1
- NuGet/Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x86from 0, < 14.8.1
- NuGet/Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-arm64from 0, < 14.8.1
- NuGet/Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-x64from 0, < 14.8.1
- NuGet/Magick.NET-Q16-x64from 0, < 14.8.1
- NuGet/Magick.NET-Q16-x86from 0, < 14.8.1
- NuGet/Magick.NET-Q8-AnyCPUfrom 0, < 14.8.1
- NuGet/Magick.NET-Q8-arm64from 0, < 14.8.1
- NuGet/Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-arm64from 0, < 14.8.1
- NuGet/Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-x64from 0, < 14.8.1
- NuGet/Magick.NET-Q8-x64from 0, < 14.8.1
- NuGet/Magick.NET-Q8-x86from 0, < 14.8.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (7)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-55298
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-55298
- PATCHhttps://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick
- WEBhttps://github.com/dlemstra/Magick.NET/releases/tag/14.8.1
- WEBhttps://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/439b362b93c074eea6c3f834d84982b43ef057d5
- WEBhttps://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-9ccg-6pjw-x645
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/09/msg00012.html