Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 13, 2021· Updated Aug 4, 2024
Issue when Configuring the ImageMagick Security Policy
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
2<7.1.0-7, <6.9.12-22+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <7.1.0-7, <6.9.12-22
- (no CPE)range: >= 7.0.0, < 7.1.0-7
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References
4- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00020.htmlmitremailing-list
- github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/01faddbe2711a4156180c4a92837e2f23683cc68mitre
- github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/35893e7cad78ce461fcaffa56076c11700ba5e4emitre
- github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-qvhr-jj4p-j2qrmitre
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