CVE-2021-3962
Published: 19 November 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-3962 is a high-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Imagemagick Imagemagick. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 45.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-27169
Vulnerability details
A flaw was found in ImageMagick where it did not properly sanitize certain input before using it to invoke convert processes. This flaw allows an attacker to create a specially crafted image that leads to a use-after-free vulnerability when processed…
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by ImageMagick. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Use-after-free exploits that achieve arbitrary code execution are blocked or significantly hardened by non-executable pages and ASLR.