Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-45463

High

Published: 23 December 2021

Published
23 December 2021
Modified
03 November 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0209 84.4th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-45463 is a high-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 15.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

load_cache in GEGL before 0.4.34 allows shell expansion when a pathname in a constructed command line is not escaped or filtered. This is caused by use of the system library function for execution of the ImageMagick convert fallback in magick-load.…

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NOTE: GEGL releases before 0.4.34 are used in GIMP releases before 2.10.30; however, this does not imply that GIMP builds enable the vulnerable feature.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfo

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

gegl
gegl
≤ 0.4.34
gimp
gimp
≤ 2.10.30
redhat
enterprise linux
7.0, 8.0
fedoraproject
fedora
34, 35

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References