CVE-2022-44268
CVSS v3
6.5
MEDIUM
EPSS Score
89.9 %
exploit probability, as of 2026-10-19
CISA KEV
No
known exploited
Exploitation
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SSVC status
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Vendor advisories
ImageMagick: vulnerable to Information Disclosure when it parses a PNG image
ImageMagick as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 · ImageMagick-c++ as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 · ImageMagick-c++-devel as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Description
ImageMagick 7.1.0-49 is vulnerable to Information Disclosure. When it parses a PNG image (e.g., for resize), the resulting image could have embedded the content of an arbitrary. file (if the magick binary has permissions to read it).
Technical details
- Published
- 2023-02-06
- Exploit-DB
- EDB-51261
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