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CVE-2020-29599

7.8
HIGHCVSS v3.1 Base Score
68.75%
MEDIUM RiskEPSS (99th percentile)

ImageMagick before 6.9.11-40 and 7.x before 7.0.10-40 mishandles the -authenticate option, which allows setting a password for password-protected PDF files. The user-controlled password was not properly escaped/sanitized and it was therefore possible to inject additional shell commands via coders/pdf.c.

Published: 12/7/2020
Modified: 11/21/2024
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Vulnerability Summary

CVSS v3 Score

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2 Score

6.8

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS Score (Exploitation Probability)

68.75%MEDIUM Exploitation Risk
99th percentile

This vulnerability has a 68.75% probability of being exploited in the next 30 days, ranking higher than 99% of all scored CVEs.

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