UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following Affecting imagemagick package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-IMAGEMAGICK-20882037
  • published13 Oct 2026
  • disclosed7 Oct 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-106566  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-61  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following in the delegate process when symlink cleanup does not properly check the MAGICK_SHRED_PASSES environment variable. An attacker can overwrite arbitrary files with random data by leveraging a local privileged workflow.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1