Description
ImageMagick before 6.9.11-40 and 7.x before 7.0.10-40 mishandles the -authenticate option, which allows setting a password for password-protected PDF files. The user-controlled password was not properly escaped/sanitized and it was therefore possible to inject additional shell commands via coders/pdf.c.
Exploits (1)
References (5)
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.6875
EPSS Percentile
98.6%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-91
Status
published
Products (2)
debian/debian_linux
9.0
imagemagick/imagemagick
6.9.8-1 - 6.9.11-40
Published
Dec 07, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026