ImageMagick 7.1.0-49 is vulnerable to Information Disclosure. When it parses a PNG image (e.g., for resize), the resulting image could have embedded the content of an arbitrary. file (if the magick binary has permissions to read it).
CVE-2022-44268
“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.
Score elevated to 9.0 because EPSS predicted 90% probability of exploitation within the next 30 days (99th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs) when EchelonGraph scored this CVE. NVD baseline CVSS 6.5 retained for reference. Confidence: see factors.
- High exploitation likelihood — EPSS 90%
- Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 6.5
- EG Score
- 9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
- EG Risk
- 65EG Risk 65/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity65% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 6.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation90% × 40%FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.Automatability0% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines. - EPSS PROB
- 90%
- EPSS %ILE
- 99th
- KEV
- Not listed
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is EPSS's lift toward 9.0 from its impact severity (EG Severity, CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM): a likelihood of exploitation, not impact.
- EG Severity
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 90% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-23). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
Published
February 6, 2023
Last Modified
March 26, 2025
Advisory Details (6)
Auto-updated Oct 14, 2026[SECURITY] [DLA 3357-1] imagemagick security update
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00008.htmlPacket Storm
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/171727/ImageMagick-7.1.0-48-Arbitrary-File-Read.html[SECURITY] [DSA 5347-1] imagemagick security update
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5347[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: ImageMagick-6.9.12.77-1.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZZLLS37P67CMBRML6OCG42GPCKGRCJNV/[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: ImageMagick-6.9.12.77-1.fc36 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AINSUL2QBKETGYRPA7XSCMJWLUB44M6S/Patch Availability(3)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | libmagickwand-6.q16-2 (8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.16+esm7) @ xenial | 2026-10-24 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | libmagickwand-6.q16hdri-6 (8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu11.5) @ focal | 2026-10-24 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | libmagickwand-6-headers (8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.15) @ bionic | 2026-10-24 | ubuntu |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(5 across 5 ecosystems)
Debian:10(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| imagemagick | 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1, 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1+deb10u1 |
| — |
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| imagemagick | 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3 |
| — |
Debian:12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| imagemagick | — |
| — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| imagemagick | — |
| — |
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| imagemagick | — |
| — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
All Vendor Advisories
(3)
Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 24× in last 7d / 42× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 87 of 99 refreshes on record for this CVE.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 13 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 12 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.
- 2026-10-24 08:59 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-24 08:59 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-24 08:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g5qh-f5rv-grcp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-10-23 11:06 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-23 11:06 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-23 11:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g5qh-f5rv-grcp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-10-22 13:12 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-22 13:12 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-22 13:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g5qh-f5rv-grcp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-10-21 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 90% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-21 15:06 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-21 15:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g5qh-f5rv-grcp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-10-20 17:07 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-20 17:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g5qh-f5rv-grcp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-10-20 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 90% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-19 19:13 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-19 19:13 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-19 19:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g5qh-f5rv-grcp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-10-18 21:17 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-18 21:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g5qh-f5rv-grcp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-10-18 08:24 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-17 22:43 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-17 22:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g5qh-f5rv-grcp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-10-17 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 90% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-17 00:48 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-17 00:48 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-17 00:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g5qh-f5rv-grcp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-10-16 00:49 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-16 00:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g5qh-f5rv-grcp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-10-14 19:42 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-14 19:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g5qh-f5rv-grcp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-10-14 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 90% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-13 15:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g5qh-f5rv-grcp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-10-12 17:57 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-12 17:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g5qh-f5rv-grcp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-10-12 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 90% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-11 22:08 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 13:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 90% · 99th percentile
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- 2026-09-30 16:09 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-26 15:55 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 90% · 99th percentile
- 2026-09-23 21:11 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-09-23 13:45 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 90% · 99th percentile
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- 2026-09-04 15:54 UTCOSV refresh
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- 2026-08-18 03:04 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-08-16 02:12 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 90% · 99th percentile
- 2026-08-12 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 90% · 99th percentile
- 2026-08-08 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 90% · 99th percentile
- 2026-08-02 21:57 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-08-01 04:13 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 90% · 99th percentile
- 2026-07-28 15:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 90% · 99th percentile
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- 2026-07-24 14:15 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 90% · 99th percentile
- 2026-07-23 02:14 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-22 23:02 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-22 14:06 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 90% · 99th percentile
- 2026-07-20 17:05 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 90% · 99th percentile
- 2026-07-18 10:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 90% · 99th percentile
- 2026-07-16 06:49 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-07-15 16:56 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 90% · 99th percentile
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- 2026-06-28 06:21 UTCOSV refresh
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- 2026-06-10 16:47 UTCOSV refresh
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Publicly available exploits
(11 references, 10 shown)Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Exploit-DB entry, 10 GitHub PoCs). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.
- GitHub PoCentr0pie/CVE-2022-44268Published Jul 3, 2023
PoC of Imagemagick's Arbitrary File Read
Open source ↗ - Exploit-DBEDB-51261Published Apr 5, 2023
ImageMagick 7.1.0-49 - Arbitrary File Read
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCkljunowsky/CVE-2022-44268Published Feb 13, 2023
CVE-2022-44268 ImageMagick Arbitrary File Read - Proof of Concept exploit
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCSybil-Scan/imagemagick-lfi-pocPublished Feb 6, 2023
ImageMagick LFI PoC [CVE-2022-44268]
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCVulnmachines/imagemagick-CVE-2022-44268Published Feb 6, 2023
Imagemagick CVE-2022-44268
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCvoidz0r/CVE-2022-44268Published Feb 5, 2023
A PoC for the CVE-2022-44268 - ImageMagick arbitrary file read
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCBaikuya/CVE-2022-44268-PoCPublished Feb 4, 2023
CVE-2022-44268 PoC
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCjnschaeffer/cve-2022-44268-detectorPublished Feb 4, 2023
Detect images that likely exploit CVE-2022-44268
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCagathanon/cve-2022-44268Published Feb 3, 2023
Payload generator and extractor for CVE-2022-44268 written in Python.
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCy1nglamore/CVE-2022-44268-ImageMagick-Vulnerable-Docker-EnvironmentPublished Feb 3, 2023
The vulnerable recurrence docker environment for CVE-2022-44268
Open source ↗
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