ImageMagick allows attackers to read sensitive files

Summary

Prior to ImageMagick versions 7.1.2-15 and 6.9.13-40, an attacker could potentially access sensitive files on your system by exploiting a security flaw in the way ImageMagick handles image file paths. This could lead to unauthorized access to sensitive data. To protect your system, ensure you're running a recent version of ImageMagick and update your security policies to prevent both reading and writing to sensitive files.

What to do

Update debian imagemagick to version 8:7.1.1.43+dfsg1-1+deb13u6.
Update debian imagemagick to version 8:7.1.2.15+dfsg1-1.

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fix available
debian	imagemagick	All versions	–
debian	imagemagick	All versions	–
debian	imagemagick	<= 8:7.1.1.43+dfsg1-1+deb13u6	8:7.1.1.43+dfsg1-1+deb13u6
debian	imagemagick	<= 8:7.1.2.15+dfsg1-1	8:7.1.2.15+dfsg1-1

Original title

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 7.1.2-15 and 6.9.13-40, ImageMagick’s path security policy is enforced on the raw fi...

Original description

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 7.1.2-15 and 6.9.13-40, ImageMagick’s path security policy is enforced on the raw filename string before the filesystem resolves it. As a result, a policy rule such as /etc/* can be bypassed by a path traversal. The OS resolves the traversal and opens the sensitive file, but the policy matcher only sees the unnormalized path and therefore allows the read. This enables local file disclosure (LFI) even when policy-secure.xml is applied. Actions to prevent reading from files have been taken in versions .7.1.2-15 and 6.9.13-40 But it make sure writing is also not possible the following should be added to one's policy. This will also be included in ImageMagick's more secure policies by default.

osv CVSS3.1 7.5

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-25965 Vendor Advisory