Reachable Assertion in ImageMagick - CVE-2022-2719
Published: September 2, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU66952
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2719
CWE-ID: CWE-617
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: ImageMagick.org
Affected software:
ImageMagick
ImageMagick
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a reachable assertion when a call to WriteImages is made in MagickWand/operation.c because of a NULL image list. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted file to the affected application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2022-2719
Install updates from vendor's website.