CVE-2026-108693 (GCVE-0-2026-108693)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-11 01:35
Modified
2026-10-13 19:53
Severity ?
7.3 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
7.0 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.0 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Summary
ImageMagick on Windows through 7.1.2-33 and 6.9.13-58 contains an uncontrolled search path vulnerability in NTGhostscriptEXE() that launches gswin64c.exe by bare name when Ghostscript is unregistered. Attackers can plant a malicious gswin64c.exe in the working directory to execute code with ImageMagick privileges when PDF, PostScript, or EPS files are converted.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ImageMagick | ImageMagick |
Version: 7.0.0-0 < Version: 0 < |
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