2.5

CVE-2026-86424: imagemagick Link Following

CVSS: 2.5v3.1LowAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-86424DEBIAN-CVE-2026-86424
Published 07-09-2026Last modified 19-09-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-86424 is a low (CVSS 2.5) Link Following vulnerability in imagemagick. EPSS estimates a 0.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
10/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
2.5/10
010
Low · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.14%
0%100%
Low · +0.03 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 1
MGASA-2026-0414OPENSUSE-SU-2026:11801-1

Timeline

  1. 07-09-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 19-09-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

CVSS metrics

7 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.14%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

3%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.03 pp

From 0.11% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.14%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • imagemagickAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 8:7.1.2.31+dfsg1-1
Imagemagick1 product
  • imagemagick< 7.1.2-30 | < 6.9.13-55 | ≥ 7.0.0-0, < 7.1.2-30
Ubuntu1 product
  • imagemagickAll versions (No fix recorded)

3 vendors · 3 products

References

5 links