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CVE-2019-12921

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 8.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-03-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-77

Description

In GraphicsMagick before 1.3.32, the text filename component allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a crafted image because of TranslateTextEx for SVG.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
• GraphicsMagick: before 1.3.32 — fixed in 1.3.32
• openSUSE Backports Sle: 15.0-sp1
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GraphicsMagick 1.3.32. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00049.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00051.html
• http://www.graphicsmagick.org/
• https://github.com/d0ge/data-processing/blob/master/CVE-2019-12921.md
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00026.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4675
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00049.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00051.html
• http://www.graphicsmagick.org/
• https://github.com/d0ge/data-processing/blob/master/CVE-2019-12921.md
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00026.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4675

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