Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-55160

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 13 August 2025

Published
13 August 2025
Modified
15 August 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0020 41.9th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-55160 is a medium-severity Reliance on Undefined, Unspecified, or Implementation-Defined Behavior (CWE-758) vulnerability in Imagemagick Imagemagick. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004); ranked at the 41.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 6.9.13-27 and 7.1.2-1, there is undefined behavior (function-type-mismatch) in splay tree cloning callback. This results in a deterministic abort under UBSan (DoS in sanitizer…

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builds), with no crash in a non-sanitized build. This issue has been patched in versions 6.9.13-27 and 7.1.2-1.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1499.004 Application or System Exploitation Impact
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities that can cause an application or system to crash and deny availability to users.
Why these techniques?

Vulnerability causes undefined behavior leading to deterministic abort/DoS in ImageMagick sanitizer builds when processing crafted 2-byte image input via MagickCoalesceImages, enabling endpoint denial of service through application exploitation.

MITRE ATLAS TechniquesAI

MITRE ATLAS techniques

AML.T0048: External Harms

Affected Assets

imagemagick
imagemagick
≤ 6.9.13-27 · 7.0.0-0 — 7.1.2-1

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References