CVE-2020-29599
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.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (7.51%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 7.51% probability · 94th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-91
- Affected
- imagemagick/imagemagick · debian/debian linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 7.5% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/discussions/2851Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://insert-script.blogspot.com/2020/11/imagemagick-shell-injection-via-pdf.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00010.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00008.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-36Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/discussions/2851Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://insert-script.blogspot.com/2020/11/imagemagick-shell-injection-via-pdf.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00010.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00008.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-36Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.