What is CVE-2026-56371?

CVE-2026-56371 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-06-23.

How severe is CVE-2026-56371?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Imagemagick

CVE-2026-56371

ImageMagick before 7.1.2-15 and 6.9.13-40 contains a memory leak in coders/txt.c when processing TXT files with texture attributes: the texture object allocated via ReadImage is not released when GetTypeMetrics fails, leaking memory each t…

EPSS: 0.003 (17.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Imagemagick — versions 0, 7.1.2-15, 6.9.13-40

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

disclosure@vulncheck.com (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
disclosure@vulncheck.com (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-56371?: CVE-2026-56371 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-06-23.
How severe is CVE-2026-56371?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.