CVE-2026-25965

Description

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 7.1.2-15 and 6.9.13-40, ImageMagick’s path security policy is enforced on the raw filename string before the filesystem resolves it. As a result, a policy rule such as /etc/* can be bypassed by a path traversal. The OS resolves the traversal and opens the sensitive file, but the policy matcher only sees the unnormalized path and therefore allows the read. This enables local file disclosure (LFI) even when policy-secure.xml is applied. Actions to prevent reading from files have been taken in versions .7.1.2-15 and 6.9.13-40 But it make sure writing is also not possible the following should be added to one's policy. This will also be included in ImageMagick's more secure policies by default.

How to fix CVE-2026-25965

To remediate CVE-2026-25965, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

—upgrade to 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3+deb11u10 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
—upgrade to 14.10.3 or later
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Is CVE-2026-25965 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (20)

from 0, < 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3+deb11u10
from 0, < 14.10.3
from 0, < 14.10.3
from 0, < 14.10.3
from 0, < 14.10.3
from 0, < 14.10.3
from 0, < 14.10.3
from 0, < 14.10.3
from 0, < 14.10.3
from 0, < 14.10.3

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH8.6	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N