CVE-2026-40169

medium Red Hat
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Published: April 13, 2026 (30 days ago)
Last Modified: April 13, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat
Source: REDHAT

Description

A flaw was found in ImageMagick. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by providing a specially crafted image file. When ImageMagick processes this image to generate a YAML or JSON output, it can lead to an out-of-bounds heap write, causing the application to crash. This results in a denial of service.

CWE

CWE-787

Affected Products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

References

🔗 bugzilla.redhat.com 🔗 www.cve.org 🔗 nvd.nist.gov 🔗 github.com 🔗 github.com