CVE-2022-44268

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).

CVSS: 6.5Mediumscored by CISA
Exploited in the wild: Not knownPublic exploit code; not in CISA KEV
EPSS: 89.9%chance of exploitation in the next 30 daystop 0.3% of scored CVEsFIRST score of 11 Nov 2026
Fix: Not stated by the vendorno fixed release in the CVE record
Published: 6 Feb 2023analysed here 12 Nov 2026

Summary

Triage

Attack surface: Server-side
Exploitable: At runtime
Attack vector: network
Weakness: CWE-200 Information Exposure
Can a WAF block it?: Partly. See why

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Affected products

Products named in our analysis

imagemagick:imagemagick

Fix and mitigation

WAF and other mitigations

Can a WAF block it? Partly. Information exposure: some WAFs can scan responses and hide known leak patterns, such as stack traces or keys.

Also consider: response filtering

Based on the weakness type only; no CVE-specific evidence yet. We check Cloudflare, AWS, Google Cloud Armor and Azure; for Akamai, Imperva, Fastly, F5, ask your vendor.

Remediation steps (AI-written)

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Exploitation evidence

CISA KEV catalog: Not listed as of our last sync.
Public exploit code: Yes: 1 on Exploit-DB · 30 GitHub proofs of concept
CISA SSVC: exploitation poc, automatable no, technical impact partialAssessed by CISA 26 Mar 2025 (SSVC 2.0.3). Exploitation is none, poc (public proof of concept) or active.

Exploit-DB

ImageMagick 7.1.0-49 - Arbitrary File Readlocal, 5 Apr 2023

GitHub proofs of concept

duc-nt/CVE-2022-44268-ImageMagick-Arbitrary-File-Read-PoC275 stars
voidz0r/CVE-2022-44268218 stars
Sybil-Scan/imagemagick-lfi-poc53 stars
kljunowsky/CVE-2022-4426826 stars

and 26 more repositories

Listed so you can judge urgency, not as a recommendation to run anything. GitHub “proofs of concept” are unvetted: some are fake or carry malware. Exploit-DB marks the entries its staff verified.

Timeline

2 Feb 2023First public exploit or proof of concept
6 Feb 2023Published5 days later
26 Mar 2025CISA SSVC assessment: exploitation poc779 days (about 2 years) later
26 Mar 2025CVE record last updatedsame day later
12 Nov 2026Analysed by vulneraibility.com596 days (about 2 years) later

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Metric	Value	What it means
Attack vector	NetworkReachable over the internet or any routable network.	Reachable over the internet or any routable network.
Attack complexity	LowRepeatable attack, no special conditions.	Repeatable attack, no special conditions.
Privileges required	NoneThe attacker needs no prior access.	The attacker needs no prior access.
User interaction	RequiredA victim must click, open or otherwise cooperate.	A victim must click, open or otherwise cooperate.
Scope	UnchangedImpact stays within the vulnerable component.	Impact stays within the vulnerable component.
Confidentiality	HighTotal data disclosure possible.	Total data disclosure possible.
Integrity	NoneNo unauthorised modification.	No unauthorised modification.
Availability	NoneThe service stays up.	The service stays up.

Common questions

Is CVE-2022-44268 being exploited?

Not confirmed. CVE-2022-44268 does not appear in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which records only exploitation that has been observed and reported publicly. That is evidence of absence of a report, not evidence the flaw is unattacked. EPSS currently estimates a 90% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How severe is CVE-2022-44268?

CVE-2022-44268 is rated Medium with a CVSS score of 6.5. Severity describes how bad exploitation would be, not how likely it is: pair it with exploitation evidence before deciding what to patch first.

Is there a patch for CVE-2022-44268?

Not known from our data. No patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2022-44268, which is not the same as no patch existing — a fix may have shipped without a tagged reference, or after this record was written. The vendor advisory is the only authority on whether a fix exists, and mitigations may be available regardless.

What does CVE-2022-44268 affect?

CVE-2022-44268 affects imagemagick:imagemagick. Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.

Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.

References

NVD CVE.org CVE Details Source

7 references in the CVE record, grouped by the tags the record gives them.

Advisories (3)

debian.org /security/2023/dsa-5347
lists.fedoraproject.org /archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZZLLS37P67CMBR
lists.fedoraproject.org /archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AINSUL2QBKETGY

Where the data on this page comes from

CVE List (CVE.org): description, affected versions, references; CVE Terms of Use
NVD: CVSS and CPE data
CISA Vulnrichment (ADP): SSVC decision points
FIRST EPSS: exploit probability and percentile
Exploit-DB: published exploits
PoC-in-GitHub: GitHub repositories that claim a proof of concept

Summary, impact and triage tags: written by our AI analysis pipeline from the sources above. Check them against the sources.

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