CVE-2025-68950: Magick's failure to limit MVG mutual references forming a loop

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-12-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-674

Description

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to version 7.1.2-12, Magick fails to check for circular references between two MVGs, leading to a stack overflow. This is a DoS vulnerability, and any situation that allows reading the mvg file will be affected. Version 7.1.2-12 fixes the issue.

Affected products

ImageMagick: before 7.1.2-12 — fixed in 7.1.2-12

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ImageMagick 7.1.2-12. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/204718c2211903949dcfc0df8e65ed066b008dec
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-7rvh-xqp3-pr8j

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