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high 7.5

CVE-2021-20313 json

A flaw was found in ImageMagick in versions before 7.0.11.

published 2021-05-11 5 y ago modified 2026-07-30 3 mo ago also EUVD-2021-7738 , JLSEC-2026-888

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 77%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A flaw was found in ImageMagick in versions before 7.0.11. A potential cipher leak when the calculate signatures in TransformSignature is possible. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.

Patch / fix

  • julia ImageMagick_jll 7.1.0+0
  • imagemagick imagemagick 7.0.11-0
  • imagemagick Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.5

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2021-20313

  • imagemagick Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.12
  • imagemagick Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu11.9
  • imagemagick Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.13+esm1
  • imagemagick Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.16+esm1
  • imagemagick Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2021-20313

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • ImageMagick SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP5 +1 more 6.8.8.1-71.165.1
  • ImageMagick SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP2, SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP2 7.0.7.34-10.15.1
  • ImageMagick SLES for SAP 15 SP1, SLES 15 SP1-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS 7.0.7.34-150000.3.123.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2023:4634-1SUSE-SU-2021:1277-1SUSE-SU-2021:1276-1

  • ImageMagick openSUSE Leap 15.2 7.0.7.34-lp152.12.15.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2021:0606-1

  • imagemagick Alpine 3.13 7.0.11.13-r0
  • imagemagick Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +8 more 7.0.11.1-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2021-20313

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2021-20313 updated cvss 5.1

ImageMagick: Cipher leak when the calculating signatures in TransformSignatureof MagickCore/signature.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ImageMagick, ImageMagick-c++, ImageMagick-perl
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ImageMagick, ImageMagick-c++, ImageMagick-perl
    under investigation

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Exploit prediction

1.75% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
OSV 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia ImageMagick_jll
<7.1.0+0
7.1.0+0

Affected products

  • n/a ImageMagick

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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