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GHSA-xwc6-v6g8-pw2h

MediumCVSS 5.9 / 10
Published Feb 24, 2026·Last modified Feb 24, 2026
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

The shipped “secure” security policy includes a rule intended to prevent reading/writing from standard streams:

<policy domain="path" rights="none" pattern="-"/>

However, ImageMagick also supports fd:<n> pseudo-filenames (e.g., fd:0, fd:1). This path form is not blocked by the secure policy templates, and therefore bypasses the protection goal of “no stdin/stdout”.

To resolve this, users can add the following change to their security policy.

<policy domain="path" rights="none" pattern="fd:*"/>

And this will also be included in ImageMagick's more secure policies by default.

Risk Scores
Base Score
5.9

The vulnerability requires local access to the device to be exploited. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a low impact on the confidentiality of the information. There is a low impact on the integrity of the data. There is a low impact on the availability of the system.

Threat Intelligence
5.4

Exploitation attempts have been detected. Elevated vigilance and prompt remediation are advised.

EPSS
0.14%

The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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