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Fencer Vulns
low 3.3

CVE-2026-86422 json

ImageMagick before 7.1.2-30 Path Policy TOCTOU Symlink Race

published 2026-09-07 2 mo ago modified 2026-10-29 10 d ago also EUVD-2026-72380

cvss
3.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 2%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

ImageMagick before 7.1.2-30 contains a time-of-check-time-of-use vulnerability in path policy enforcement on Windows that allows attackers to bypass read or write restrictions by exploiting symlink race conditions. Attackers can swap symlinks between policy validation and file access to read or write policy-denied files.

Patch / fix

  • ImageMagick ImageMagick 6.9.13-55, 7.1.2-30

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-2026-86422 updated cvss 3.3

ImageMagick: ImageMagick: Information disclosure and modification via TOCTOU symlink race on Windows

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ImageMagick, ImageMagick-c++, ImageMagick-perl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ImageMagick, ImageMagick-c++, ImageMagick-perl
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
1 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 2% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 1.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 3.1 3.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CNA 4.0 1.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD 3.1 3.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products

  • ImageMagick ImageMagick

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

References

Sources

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