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.
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Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Attack VectorLocal
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeUnchanged
Impact
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploit Intelligence
7.51%probability of exploitation in 30 days
94thpercentile
High risk: more likely to be exploited than 94% of all known CVEs.
Published advisories record a fix for 32 affected products. The "How to fix" section on this page lists the fixed version and source advisory for each one, so apply the entry matching what you actually run.
Is CVE-2020-29599 being actively exploited?
Not that we know of. CVE-2020-29599 is not in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Its EPSS score of 7.5% is the estimated probability that it will be exploited in the next 30 days. That is higher than 94% of all scored CVEs.
How severe is CVE-2020-29599?
CVE-2020-29599 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8, rated high. CVSS rates the technical impact if the vulnerability is exploited, not how likely that is, so weigh it alongside the exploit-prediction score when you decide what to patch first.
What does CVE-2020-29599 affect?
Published advisories record a fix for imagemagick (Debian), imagemagick (Ubuntu), imagemagick-6-common (Ubuntu), imagemagick-6.q16 (Ubuntu), and 28 more. Only products with a sourced advisory are listed, so treat this as what we can cite rather than a complete inventory.
TridentStack Control continuously scans your Windows, macOS, and Linux fleet for known vulnerabilities, prioritizes them by severity and active exploitation, and patches them automatically.
This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.
