CVE-2023-34152

Publication date 30 May 2023

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A vulnerability was found in ImageMagick. This security flaw cause a remote code execution vulnerability in OpenBlob with --enable-pipes configured.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
imagemagick	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was ignored [not enabled by default]
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was ignored [not enabled by default]
	22.04 LTS jammy	Ignored not enabled by default
	20.04 LTS focal	Ignored not enabled by default
	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored not enabled by default
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

rodrigo-zaiden

the build option --enable-pipes first appeared in version 6.9.4-6, hence, before bionic the option didn't even exist. upstream claims that the usage of --enable-pipes is a security risk by design. it is not enabled by default in Ubuntu.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H