CVE-2020-29599 (GCVE-0-2020-29599)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-12-07 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 16:55
VLAI
Summary
ImageMagick before 6.9.11-40 and 7.x before 7.0.10-40 mishandles the -authenticate option, which allows setting a password for password-protected PDF files. The user-controlled password was not properly escaped/sanitized and it was therefore possible to inject additional shell commands via coders/pdf.c.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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