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CVE-2022-1115

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-08-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

A heap-buffer-overflow flaw was found in ImageMagick’s PushShortPixel() function of quantum-private.h file. This vulnerability is triggered when an attacker passes a specially crafted TIFF image file to ImageMagick for conversion, potentially leading to a denial of service.

Affected products

• ImageMagick: before 6.9.12-44; from 7.0.0-0 before 7.1.0-29 — fixed in 6.9.12-44, 7.1.0-29

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ImageMagick 6.9.12-44, 7.1.0-29. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1115
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2067022
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/c8718305f120293d8bf13724f12eed885d830b09
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/4974
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/1f860f52bd8d58737ad883072203391096b30b51
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1115
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2067022
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/c8718305f120293d8bf13724f12eed885d830b09
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/4974
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/1f860f52bd8d58737ad883072203391096b30b51

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