CVE-2021-45463 Command injection in n/a

What is CVE-2021-45463?

CVE-2021-45463 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 23 Dec 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

load_cache in GEGL before 0.4.34 allows shell expansion when a pathname in a constructed command line is not escaped or filtered. This is caused by use of the system library function for execution of the ImageMagick convert fallback in magick-load. NOTE: GEGL releases before 0.4.34 are used in GIMP releases before 2.10.30; however, this does not imply that GIMP builds enable the vulnerable feature.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-45463?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Gegl Gegl, Gimp Gimp, Redhat Enterprise Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2021-45463?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2021-45463 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-45463 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALSA-2022:0177, CLEANSTART-2024-VE53254, CLSA-2026-1791563692, DEBIAN-CVE-2021-45463, GHSA-g9gv-9646-jvp8, MGASA-2022-0003 and 14 more.