CVE-2026-56373 low CVSS 3.7

Use-After-Free in Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU (CVE-2026-56373)

Summary

Vulnerability in Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU (CVE-2026-56373). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 14.10.3 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

ImageMagick before 7.1.2-15 contains a use-after-free vulnerability in the PDB decoder that uses a stale pointer when memory allocation fails. Attackers can trigger this vulnerability by processing malicious PDB files to cause crashes or write a single zero byte to freed memory.

Source: GitHub Security Advisories (Global) NVD GitHub Advisory

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-56373 has been found in Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 3.7/10.
What to do: upgrade Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU to 14.10.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU CVE-2026-56373" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2026-56373 (Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU) — CWE-416 / CVSS v3 3.7
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Patched: 14.10.3 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.

❓ What is the problem

Use-after-free (CWE-416) exists in Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU.

📍 Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU.

🔥 Severity

Severity: Low (CVSS 3.7/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 14.10.3.

🛡️ Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

🔍 Detection

Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.

Response actions

Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order

1
Identify exposure identify
```
grep -r 'Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU' . | grep -v node_modules
```
リポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU を grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。
2
Apply patch patch
```
Upgrade Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU to 14.10.3
```
ステージング環境で 14.10.3 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
3
Post-deployment verification verify
```
Confirm patched version is live in production
```
パッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。