Medium severity4.4NVD Advisory· Published Sep 13, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-39212
CVE-2021-39212
Description
ImageMagick is free software delivered as a ready-to-run binary distribution or as source code that you may use, copy, modify, and distribute in both open and proprietary applications. In affected versions and in certain cases, Postscript files could be read and written when specifically excluded by a module policy in policy.xml. ex. . The issue has been resolved in ImageMagick 7.1.0-7 and in 6.9.12-22. Fortunately, in the wild, few users utilize the module policy and instead use the coder policy that is also our workaround recommendation: .
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Affected products
3cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=6.9.12-0,<6.9.12-22
- (no CPE)range: before 7.1.0-7 and 6.9.12-22
- (no CPE)range: >= 7.0.0, < 7.1.0-7
Patches
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References
4- github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/01faddbe2711a4156180c4a92837e2f23683cc68nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/35893e7cad78ce461fcaffa56076c11700ba5e4envdPatchThird Party Advisory
- github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-qvhr-jj4p-j2qrnvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00020.htmlnvd
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