Symlink Attack Affecting imagemagick package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-IMAGEMAGICK-20883115
  • published13 Oct 2026
  • disclosed12 Oct 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-109274  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (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 Symlink Attack in the magick script. An attacker can access files protected by the path security policy by exploiting a time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition, swapping a checked path with a symlink during script execution.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1