Improper Access Control Affecting graphicsmagick package, versions [,1.3.26)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
75.27% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GRAPHICSMAGICK-2380636
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Jun 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Jun 2016

CVE-2016-5118  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade graphicsmagick to version 1.3.26 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control. The OpenBlob function in blob.c in GraphicsMagick before 1.3.24 and ImageMagick allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a | (pipe) character at the start of a filename.

CVSS Scores

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