CVE-2025-55298

Publication date 26 August 2025

Last updated 10 October 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
imagemagick 25.10 questing
Not affected
25.04 plucky
Vulnerable
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 8:6.9.12.98+dfsg1-5.2ubuntu0.1~esm3
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3ubuntu0.22.04.5+esm4
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu11.11+esm4
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.15+esm6
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.16+esm14
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.13+esm15

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-7812-1
    • ImageMagick vulnerabilities
    • 8 October 2025

Other references