CVE-2026-56379
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Command Injection in ImageMagick SVG Decoder

Publication date: 2026-06-23

Last updated on: 2026-06-23

Assigner: VulnCheck

Description
ImageMagick before 7.1.2-15 and 6.9.13-40 contains a command injection vulnerability in the SVG decoder that allows attackers to inject arbitrary MVG drawing commands. Attackers can craft malicious SVG files with injected Magick Vector Graphics commands that execute during rendering.
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Published
2026-06-23
Last Modified
2026-06-23
Generated
2026-06-23
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2026-06-23
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NVD
CVE-2026-56379
EUVD
EUVD-2026-38441
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Vendor Product Version / Range
imagemagick imagemagick to 7.1.2-15|end_excluding=6.9.13-40 (exc)
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CWE ID Description
CWE-116 The product prepares a structured message for communication with another component, but encoding or escaping of the data is either missing or done incorrectly. As a result, the intended structure of the message is not preserved.
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Executive Summary

CVE-2026-56379 is a command injection vulnerability in ImageMagick's SVG decoder that allows attackers to inject arbitrary Magick Vector Graphics (MVG) drawing commands into SVG files.

When the vulnerable versions of ImageMagick process these malicious SVG files, the injected MVG commands execute during rendering.

This occurs due to improper encoding or escaping of output in the SVG decoder.

The vulnerability affects ImageMagick versions before 7.1.2-15 and 6.9.13-40.

Impact Analysis

Despite being a command injection vulnerability, CVE-2026-56379 has a CVSS base score of 0.0, indicating no impact on confidentiality, integrity, or availability.

The attack requires no privileges, user interaction, or network access.

Therefore, this vulnerability does not result in any direct harmful impact such as data breach, system compromise, or service disruption.

Detection Guidance

This vulnerability involves the injection of arbitrary MVG drawing commands into SVG files processed by ImageMagick versions prior to 7.1.2-15 and 6.9.13-40.

Detection can focus on identifying the presence of vulnerable ImageMagick versions on your system and scanning for suspicious or crafted SVG files that may contain injected MVG commands.

Specific commands to detect this vulnerability are not provided in the available resources.

Mitigation Strategies

The primary mitigation step is to update ImageMagick to a fixed version, specifically version 7.1.2-15 or later, or 6.9.13-40 or later.

Avoid processing untrusted or malicious SVG files with vulnerable versions of ImageMagick to prevent exploitation.

Compliance Impact

The vulnerability in ImageMagick (CVE-2026-56379) is a low-severity command injection that does not impact confidentiality, integrity, or availability.

Because it does not affect these core security properties, there is no direct indication from the provided information that this vulnerability affects compliance with common standards and regulations such as GDPR or HIPAA.

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