Low severity2.5NVD Advisory· Published Sep 7, 2026· Updated Sep 19, 2026
CVE-2026-86424
CVE-2026-86424
Description
ImageMagick before 7.1.2-30 and 6.9.13-55 contains a time-of-check-time-of-use (TOCTOU) vulnerability in the video decoder that allows attackers to bypass path policy write restrictions via symlink swaps. An attacker can replace a symlink between policy validation (check-time) and the file write operation (use-time) to write to policy-denied locations.
Affected products
3<7.1.2-30, <6.9.13-55+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <7.1.2-30, <6.9.13-55
- cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <6.9.13-55
Patches
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