CVE-2020-27756: ImageMagick

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In ParseMetaGeometry() of MagickCore/geometry.c, image height and width calculations can lead to divide-by-zero conditions which also lead to undefined behavior. This flaw can be triggered by a crafted input file processed by ImageMagick and could impact application availability. The patch uses multiplication in addition to the function `PerceptibleReciprocal()` in order to prevent such divide-by-zero conditions. This flaw affects ImageMagick versions prior to 7.0.9-0.

Affected products

• ImageMagick ImageMagick: from 6.9.9-34, before 6.9.10-69 (fixed in 6.9.10-69); from 7.0.0-0, before 7.0.9-0 (fixed in 7.0.9-0)

Published 2020-12-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.