ImageMagick up to 6.9.13-58/7.1.2-33 Ghostscript Delegate NTGhostscriptEXE uncontrolled search path

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A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in ImageMagick up to 6.9.13-58/7.1.2-33. This impacts the function NTGhostscriptEXE of the component Ghostscript Delegate. Such manipulation leads to uncontrolled search path. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2026-108693. The attack can only be performed from a local environment. Furthermore, an exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in ImageMagick up to 6.9.13-58/7.1.2-33 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is the function NTGhostscriptEXE of the component Ghostscript Delegate. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a uncontrolled search path vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-427. The product uses a fixed or controlled search path to find resources, but one or more locations in that path can be under the control of unintended actors. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

ImageMagick on Windows through 7.1.2-33 and 6.9.13-58 contains an uncontrolled search path vulnerability in NTGhostscriptEXE() that launches gswin64c.exe by bare name when Ghostscript is unregistered. Attackers can plant a malicious gswin64c.exe in the working directory to execute code with ImageMagick privileges when PDF, PostScript, or EPS files are converted.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-108693 since 10/11/2026. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack needs to be approached locally. Technical details as well as a exploit are known. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1574.

The exploit is available at github.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Image Processing Software

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• ImageMagick

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• 6.9.13-58
• 7.1.2-33

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://www.imagemagick.org/

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