RHEL 7 : ImageMagick (RHSA-2026:5573)

high Nessus Plugin ID 303412

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for ImageMagick.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:5573 advisory.

ImageMagick is an image display and manipulation tool for the X Window System that can read and write multiple image formats.

Security Fix(es):

* ImageMagick: ImageMagick: Local File Disclosure via Path Traversal (CVE-2026-25965)

* ImageMagick: Memory allocation with excessive without limits in the internal SVG decoder (CVE-2026-25985)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL ImageMagick package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:5573.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 303412

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-5573.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 3/24/2026

Updated: 3/24/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.73

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-25965

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:imagemagick, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:imagemagick-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:imagemagick-perl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:imagemagick-c%2b%2b, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:imagemagick-c%2b%2b-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/24/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/24/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-25965, CVE-2026-25985

CWE: 22, 770

RHSA: 2026:5573

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