CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-68618

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: Dec 30, 2025 | Modified: Jan 06, 2026
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5.3 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to version 7.1.2-12, using Magick to read a malicious SVG file resulted in a DoS attack. Version 7.1.2-12 fixes the issue.

Weakness

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
ImagemagickImagemagick*7.1.2-12 (excluding)
ImagemagickUbuntuesm-apps/focal*
ImagemagickUbuntuesm-apps/jammy*
ImagemagickUbuntuesm-apps/noble*
ImagemagickUbuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
ImagemagickUbuntuesm-infra/bionic*
ImagemagickUbuntuesm-infra/xenial*
ImagemagickUbuntujammy*
ImagemagickUbuntunoble*
ImagemagickUbuntuplucky*
ImagemagickUbuntuquesting*
ImagemagickUbuntuupstream*

Potential Mitigations

References