CVE-2026-40183

medium Red Hat
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Local
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 software for editing and manipulating digital images. When a user processes an image with the JXL encoder and specifies that it should be encoded as 16-bit floats, a heap write overflow occurs. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) by crashing the application.

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