CVE-2025-55004

Publication date 13 August 2025

Last updated 20 November 2025


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.6 · High

Score breakdown

Description

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to version 7.1.2-1, ImageMagick is vulnerable to heap-buffer overflow read around the handling of images with separate alpha channels when performing image magnification in ReadOneMNGIMage. This can likely be used to leak subsequent memory contents into the output image. This issue has been patched in version 7.1.2-1.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
imagemagick 25.10 questing
Vulnerable
25.04 plucky
Vulnerable
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes


iconstantin

issue specific to how imagemagick 7 handles images with separate alpha channels.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.6 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact Low
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L