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Vulnerability details: VCID-qfeu-89fm-cfds
Vulnerability ID VCID-qfeu-89fm-cfds
Aliases CVE-2020-29599
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 7.0
Risk 3.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')
CWE-91 XML Injection (aka Blind XPath Injection)
System Score Found at
cvssv3 7.3 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2020-29599.json
epss 0.66216 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-29599
epss 0.66216 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-29599
epss 0.66216 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-29599
epss 0.66216 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-29599
epss 0.66216 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-29599
epss 0.66216 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-29599
epss 0.66216 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-29599
epss 0.66216 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-29599
epss 0.66216 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-29599
epss 0.66216 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-29599
epss 0.66216 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-29599
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 6.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-29599
cvssv3.1 7.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-29599
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2020-29599.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-29599
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-29599
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/discussions/2851
https://insert-script.blogspot.com/2020/11/imagemagick-shell-injection-via-pdf.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00010.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-36
1907456 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1907456
977205 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=977205
cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2020-29599 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-29599
RHSA-2021:0024 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0024
USN-6200-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/6200-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2020-29599.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-29599
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-29599
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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adjacent_network

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.98443
EPSS Score 0.66216
Published At July 31, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:31:22.257077+00:00 Alpine Linux Importer Import https://secdb.alpinelinux.org/v3.16/community.json 37.0.0