CVE-2026-108693
7, highImageMagick Uncontrolled Search Path Element Vulnerability
- CVSS
- 7, high high CVSS v3.1
- EPSS, next 30 days
- 0.1% higher than 2.1% of scored CVEs
- Exploitation
- No public evidence
- Published
- 11 Oct 20266 days ago
Description
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.
Details
- Vendor
- ImageMagick
- Product
- ImageMagick
- Weakness
- CWE-427 (opens in a new tab)
- Status
- Received
- Updated
- 11 Oct 2026
- Assigner
- disclosure@vulncheck.com
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References 5
Other references 5
- github.com /ImageMagick/ImageMagick (opens in a new tab)
- github.com /ImageMagick/ImageMagick/blob/211e5b975a0019a88dcef5f84c1193f46738d815/MagickCore/nt-base.c#L1469-L1511 (opens in a new tab)
- github.com /ImageMagick/ImageMagick/blob/211e5b975a0019a88dcef5f84c1193f46738d815/MagickCore/nt-base.c#L2829-L2832 (opens in a new tab)
- github.com /ghostx-86/exploitarium/tree/main/imagemagick-gs-delegate-hijack-poc (opens in a new tab)
- vulncheck.com /advisories/imagemagick-through-7.1.2-33-and-6.9.13-58-uncontrolled-search-path-via-ghostscript-delegate (opens in a new tab)
The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.
Other ImageMagick CVEs
Every ImageMagick CVE we holdSame vendor in what we hold, not a known link between the flaws.
- CVE-2016-3714 ImageMagick Improper Input Validation Vulnerability KEV EPSS 97% 8.4, high
- CVE-2016-3715 ImageMagick Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability KEV EPSS 75% 5.5, medium
- CVE-2016-3718 ImageMagick Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) Vulnerability KEV EPSS 76% 5.5, medium
- CVE-2026-93589 ImageMagick before 7.1.2-31 and 6.9.13-56 contains a division-by-zero flaw in the FLIF encoder EPSS 0.3% 7.5, high
- CVE-2026-93590 ImageMagick Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability EPSS 0.3% 7.5, high
- CVE-2026-86420 ImageMagick Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability EPSS 0.3% 7.5, high
- CVE-2026-86421 ImageMagick Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability EPSS 0.5% 7.5, high
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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.