CVE-2026-33853

Medium

Published: 24 March 2026

Published

24 March 2026

Modified

26 March 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0003 8.0th percentile

Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2026-33853 is a medium-severity NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476) vulnerability in Molotovcherry Android-Imagemagick7. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Malicious File (T1204.002); ranked at the 8.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-2 (Flaw Remediation) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Malicious File (T1204.002) and 1 other technique. What defenders deploy: see the NIST 800-53 controls recommended below.

Threat & Defense Details

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match

prevent

SI-2 requires timely remediation of identified flaws, directly mitigating this NULL pointer dereference by applying the patch available in Android-ImageMagick7 version 7.1.2-10.

SI-11 Error Handling partial match

prevent

SI-11 enforces secure error handling to manage NULL pointer conditions gracefully, preventing application crashes from denial-of-service exploitation.

SI-10 Information Input Validation partial match

prevent

SI-10 validates image file inputs prior to processing, blocking specially crafted files that trigger the NULL pointer dereference vulnerability.

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1204.002 Malicious File Execution

An adversary may rely upon a user opening a malicious file in order to gain execution.

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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.

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Why these techniques?

NULL dereference in image library directly enables crafted malicious image file (T1204.002) to trigger application crash via exploitation (T1499.004).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

NVD Description

NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in MolotovCherry Android-ImageMagick7.This issue affects Android-ImageMagick7: before 7.1.2-10.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2026-33853 is a NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability (CWE-476) in the MolotovCherry Android-ImageMagick7 library. This issue affects Android-ImageMagick7 versions before 7.1.2-10.

The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.5 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H). A local attacker requires no privileges but needs user interaction, such as tricking a victim into opening or processing a specially crafted image file within an application using the library. Successful exploitation leads to a denial of service, causing the affected application to crash with high availability impact and no confidentiality or integrity effects.

Mitigation is addressed in Android-ImageMagick7 version 7.1.2-10. Patch details are available in the GitHub pull request at https://github.com/MolotovCherry/Android-ImageMagick7/pull/183.