High severity · published Dec 8, 2020
CVE-2020-27752
A flaw was found in ImageMagick in MagickCore/quantum-private.h
7.1
CVSS
1.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in ImageMagick in MagickCore/quantum-private.h. An attacker who submits a crafted file that is processed by ImageMagick could trigger a heap buffer overflow. This would most likely lead to an impact to application availability, but could potentially lead to an impact to data integrity as well. This flaw affects ImageMagick versions prior to 7.0.9-0.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.1% · higher than 65% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
IM
Imagemagick · Imagemagick
before 6.9.11-47; 7.0.0-0 before 7.0.9-0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27752
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-27752
Exploit
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1894226
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