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medium 5.5

CVE-2023-1289 json

ImageMagick: Specially crafted SVG leads to segmentation fault and generate trash files in "/tmp", possible to leverage DoS

published 2023-03-23 3 y ago modified 2026-07-30 3 mo ago also EUVD-2023-23554 , GHSA-j96m-mjp6-99xr , JLSEC-2026-901

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 58%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A vulnerability was discovered in ImageMagick where a specially created SVG file loads itself and causes a segmentation fault. This flaw allows a remote attacker to pass a specially crafted SVG file that leads to a segmentation fault, generating many trash files in "/tmp," resulting in a denial of service. When ImageMagick crashes, it generates a lot of trash files. These trash files can be large if the SVG file contains many render actions. In a denial of service attack, if a remote attacker uploads an SVG file of size t, ImageMagick generates files of size 103*t. If an attacker uploads a 100M SVG, the server will generate about 10G.

Patch / fix

  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU 13.0.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU 13.0.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64 13.0.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-arm64 13.0.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64 13.0.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x86 13.0.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-arm64 13.0.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-x64 13.0.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-x86 13.0.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-arm64 13.0.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-x64 13.0.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-x86 13.0.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-x64 13.0.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q8-AnyCPU 13.0.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-arm64 13.0.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-x64 13.0.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q8-arm64 13.0.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q8-x64 13.0.0
  • nuget Magick.NET-Q8-x86 13.0.0
  • julia ImageMagick_jll 7.1.1+0
  • imagemagick imagemagick 7.1.1-0
  • imagemagick Debian 12 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.6+deb12u1
  • imagemagick Debian 14, Debian 13 8:6.9.12.98+dfsg1-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-1289

  • imagemagick Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu11.10
  • imagemagick Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3ubuntu0.22.04.5
  • imagemagick Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.6ubuntu1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2023-1289

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 SLE Real Time 15 SP3, openSUSE Leap 15.4 7.0.7.34-150200.10.45.1
  • ImageMagick SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP5 +1 more 6.8.8.1-71.186.1
  • ImageMagick SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP4, SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4 7.1.0.9-150400.6.15.1
  • 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-2023:1756-1SUSE-SU-2023:1734-1SUSE-SU-2023:1733-1

  • ImageMagick openSUSE Tumbleweed 7.1.1.17-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:13263-1

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-2023-1289 updated cvss 5.5

ImageMagick: Specially crafted SVG leads to segmentation fault and generate trash files in "/tmp", possible to leverage DoS

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

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.86% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-j96m-mjp6-99xr referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
GitHub 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU
<13.0.0
13.0.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU
<13.0.0
13.0.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64
<13.0.0
13.0.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-arm64
<13.0.0
13.0.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64
<13.0.0
13.0.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x86
<13.0.0
13.0.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-arm64
<13.0.0
13.0.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-x64
<13.0.0
13.0.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-x86
<13.0.0
13.0.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-arm64
<13.0.0
13.0.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-x64
<13.0.0
13.0.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-x86
<13.0.0
13.0.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-x64
<13.0.0
13.0.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-AnyCPU
<13.0.0
13.0.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-arm64
<13.0.0
13.0.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-x64
<13.0.0
13.0.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-arm64
<13.0.0
13.0.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-x64
<13.0.0
13.0.0
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-x86
<13.0.0
13.0.0
julia ImageMagick_jll
<7.1.1+0
7.1.1+0

Affected products

  • n/a ImageMagick

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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