ImageMagick up to 6.9.13-57/7.1.2-32 Delegate Invocation policy.xml privileges management

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in ImageMagick up to 6.9.13-57/7.1.2-32. It has been classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file policy.xml of the component Delegate Invocation. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-116140. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in ImageMagick up to 6.9.13-57/7.1.2-32. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code block of the file policy.xml of the component Delegate Invocation. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

ImageMagick before 6.9.13-58 and 7.x before 7.1.2-33 incorrectly parses delegate invocations, which can allow an executable blocked in policy.xml to still run. An attacker who gets ImageMagick to process input that triggers a delegate invocation can bypass the administrator-defined policy and execute the blocked program.

The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-116140 since 10/25/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

By approaching the search of inurl:policy.xml it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Upgrading to version 6.9.13-58 or 7.1.2-33 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Image Processing Software

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• ImageMagick

Version

• 6.9.13-57
• 7.1.2-32

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• open-source

Website

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

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