CVE-2026-86424

ImageMagick before 7.1.2-30 and 6.9.13-55 contains a time-of-check-time-of-use (TOCTOU) vulnerability in the video decoder that allows attackers to bypass path policy write restrictions via symlink swaps. An attacker can replace a symlink between policy validation (check-time) and the file write operation (use-time) to write to policy-denied locations.

Scoring

Severity
LOW
CVSS base score
2.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS probability
0.12%
CWE
CWE-59
Published
2026-09-07
Last modified
2026-09-07

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