Vulnerability · Published Dec 8, 2020 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2020-27752

High 7.1

In plain English

A high-severity heap buffer overflow in ImageMagick. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.1% (higher than 65% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.1High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.1%top 34.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A flaw was found in ImageMagick in MagickCore/quantum-private.h. An attacker who submits a crafted file that is processed by ImageMagick could trigger a heap buffer overflow. This would most likely lead to an impact to application availability, but could potentially lead to an impact to data integrity as well. This flaw affects ImageMagick versions prior to 7.0.9-0.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12imagemagick8:6.9.11.24+dfsg-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-27752
Debian:13imagemagick8:6.9.11.24+dfsg-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-27752
Debian:14imagemagick8:6.9.11.24+dfsg-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-27752

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a ImageMagick prior to 7.0.9-0

Weakness: CWE-122

References