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CVE-2020-27773 json

A flaw was found in ImageMagick in MagickCore/gem-private.h.

published 5y ago modified 3mo ago also EUVD-2020-20277 , JLSEC-2026-871

cvss
3.3
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 62%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A flaw was found in ImageMagick in MagickCore/gem-private.h. An attacker who submits a crafted file that is processed by ImageMagick could trigger undefined behavior in the form of values outside the range of type `unsigned char` or division by zero. This would most likely lead to an impact to application availability, but could potentially cause other problems related to undefined behavior. This flaw affects ImageMagick versions prior to 7.0.9-0.

Patch / fix

  • julia ImageMagick_jll 6.9.12+0
  • imagemagick imagemagick 6.9.10-69, 7.0.9
  • imagemagick Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 8:6.9.11.24+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-27773

  • imagemagick Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.11
  • imagemagick Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu11.4
  • imagemagick Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.16+esm11

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2020-27773

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • ImageMagick SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES for SAP 12 SP3 +16 more 6.8.8.1-71.154.1
  • ImageMagick SLES for SAP 15 SP1, SLES for SAP 15, SLES 15-LTSS +12 more 7.0.7.34-3.90.1
  • ImageMagick SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP2, SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP2 7.0.7.34-10.9.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2021:0199-1SUSE-SU-2021:0156-1SUSE-SU-2021:0153-1

  • ImageMagick openSUSE Leap 15.1 7.0.7.34-lp151.7.26.1
  • ImageMagick openSUSE Leap 15.2 7.0.7.34-lp152.12.9.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2021:0148-1openSUSE-SU-2021:0136-1

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red hat product security vex CVE-2020-27773 updated cvss 3.3

ImageMagick: division by zero at MagickCore/gem-private.h

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ImageMagick Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ImageMagick, ImageMagick-c++, ImageMagick-perl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ImageMagick, ImageMagick-c++, ImageMagick-perl
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 ImageMagick
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 inkscape, inkscape-view
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 62% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugzilla.redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1898295 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 3.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
OSV 3.1 3.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia ImageMagick_jll
<6.9.12+0
6.9.12+0

Affected products

  • n/a ImageMagick

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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