CVE-2020-29599

high-risk
Published 2020-12-07

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.

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68.8% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 31% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
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CVSS 7.8/10 High
LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (2)

Affected Vendors

Debian Imagemagick

References (10)

Exploit https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/discussions/2851
Third Party Advisory https://insert-script.blogspot.com/2020/11/imagemagick-shell-injection-via-pdf.h...
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00010.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00008.html
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-36
Exploit https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/discussions/2851
Third Party Advisory https://insert-script.blogspot.com/2020/11/imagemagick-shell-injection-via-pdf.h...
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00010.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00008.html
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-36
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/ 100
high-risk
Severity 24/34 · High
Exploitability 19/34 · Moderate
Exposure 7/34 · Low