CVE-2021-39212

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

ImageMagick is free software delivered as a ready-to-run binary distribution or as source code that you may use, copy, modify, and distribute in both open and proprietary applications. In affected versions and in certain cases, Postscript files could be read and written when specifically excluded by a `module` policy in `policy.xml`. ex. <policy domain="module" rights="none" pattern="PS" />. The issue has been resolved in ImageMagick 7.1.0-7 and in 6.9.12-22. Fortunately, in the wild, few users utilize the `module` policy and instead use the `coder` policy that is also our workaround recommendation: <policy domain="coder" rights="none" pattern="{PS,EPI,EPS,EPSF,EPSI}" />.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-39212

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-39212.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed7.1.0.7-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.5
debian debianbullseyefixed8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3+deb11u2
debian debianforkyfixed8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.5
debian debiansidfixed8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.5
debian debiantrixiefixed8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.5

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.