CVE-2026-86422

Published Sep 7, 2026

Last updated 10 days ago

Overview

Description
ImageMagick before 7.1.2-30 contains a time-of-check-time-of-use vulnerability in path policy enforcement on Windows that allows attackers to bypass read or write restrictions by exploiting symlink race conditions. Attackers can swap symlinks between policy validation and file access to read or write policy-denied files.
Source
disclosure@vulncheck.com
NVD status
Analyzed
Products
imagemagick

Risk scores

CVSS 4.0

Type
Secondary
Base score
1
Impact score
-
Exploitability score
-
Vector string
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Severity
LOW

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
3.3
Impact score
2.5
Exploitability score
0.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Severity
LOW

Weaknesses

disclosure@vulncheck.com
CWE-59

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations