CVE-2020-27752: imagemagick Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2020-27752 is a high (CVSS 7.1) Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in imagemagick. EPSS estimates a 1.09% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64.7% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 08-12-2020
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 04-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A flaw was found in ImageMagick in MagickCore/quantum-private.h. An attacker who submits a crafted file that is processed by ImageMagick could trigger a heap buffer overflow. This would most likely lead to an impact to application availability, but could potentially lead to an impact to data integrity as well. This flaw affects ImageMagick versions prior to 7.0.9-0.

• CWE-122Heap-based Buffer OverflowA heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().