Cyber Resilience

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 v3.1 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 9.8th 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 9.8th 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).

Deeper analysis

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.

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Vulnerability details

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

CWE(s)
CWE-476

Related Threats

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

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2026-33856Same product: Molotovcherry Android-Imagemagick7
CVE-2026-33855Same product: Molotovcherry Android-Imagemagick7
CVE-2026-33854Same product: Molotovcherry Android-Imagemagick7
CVE-2026-4755Same product: Molotovcherry Android-Imagemagick7
CVE-2026-33852Same product: Molotovcherry Android-Imagemagick7
CVE-2026-4756Same product: Molotovcherry Android-Imagemagick7
CVE-2026-31792Shared CWE-476
CVE-2026-21680Shared CWE-476
CVE-2026-40413Shared CWE-476
CVE-2025-57155Shared CWE-476

Affected Assets

molotovcherry
android-imagemagick7
≤ 7.1.2-10

Mitigating Controls

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.

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