CVE-2025-55298 - CVE House

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Status published High CVE-2025-55298

ImageMagick Format String Bug in InterpretImageFilename leads to arbitrary code execution

7.5 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to ImageMagick versions 6.9.13-28 and 7.1.2-2, a format string bug vulnerability exists in InterpretImageFilename function where user input is directly passed to FormatLocaleString without proper sanitization. An attacker can overwrite arbitrary memory regions, enabling a wide range of attacks from heap overflow to remote code execution. This issue has been patched in versions 6.9.13-28 and 7.1.2-2.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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References

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ImageMagick vulnerable to heap-buffer-overflow

ImageMagick is vulnerable to an Integer Overflow in TIM decoder leading to out of bounds read (32-bit only)

Affected Vendor

ImageMagick

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Affected Software

ImageMagick

Vulnerable Versions:

< 7.1.2-2, < 6.9.13-28

Timeline

Official Publish: August 26th, 2025

Last Modified: November 3rd, 2025

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-123 CWE-134

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.