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CVE-2026-86424 (GCVE-0-2026-86424)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-07 12:53 – Updated: 2026-09-07 12:53
VLAI
Title
ImageMagick before 7.1.2-30 Path Traversal via TOCTOU Symlink Race
Summary
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.
Severity
2 (Low)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
2.5 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
ImageMagick ImageMagick Affected: 0 , < 7.1.2-30 (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.2-30 (semver)
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ImageMagick ImageMagick Affected: 0 , < 6.9.13-55 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.9.13-55 (semver)
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Date Public
2026-08-23 00:00
Credits
rexpository
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