CVE-2026-56377

ImageMagick - Policy Bypass via Incorrect Path Validation

State: Published
Severity: 4.8 Medium
Published: Jun 30, 2026
Updated: Oct 29, 2026
Reserved: Jun 21, 2026

Description

ImageMagick before 7.1.2-24 contains an incorrect policy check that allows attackers to create or truncate files disallowed by security policies. Remote attackers can bypass path policy restrictions in sandboxed conversion services to write arbitrary files outside intended boundaries.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	4.8 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	VulnCheck
3.1	3.3 Low	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	VulnCheck

Weaknesses

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
ImageMagickImageMagick	7.0.0 to before 7.1.2-24Affected 7.1.2-24Not affected
ImageMagickImageMagick	before 6.9.13-48Affected 6.9.13-48Not affected

References

GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-gm48-c7f2-v67p)vendor-advisory
VulnCheck Advisory: ImageMagick - Policy Bypass via Incorrect Path Validationthird-party-advisory

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