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CVE-2021-45463

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-45463 is a high-severity vulnerability in GEGL versions prior to 0.4.34, affecting products like GIMP and Red Hat. It allows for shell expansion due to improper escaping of pathnames in constructed command lines when GEGL uses ImageMagick's convert fallback. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a high potential for impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring user interaction and local access to exploit. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.4.34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gegl:gegl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 2.10.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gimp:gimp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.44%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0144 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 11,616 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: gegl-0:0.2.0-19.el7_9.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gegl04-0:0.4.4-6.el8_5.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update SupportFixed in: gegl04-0:0.4.4-6.el8_2.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update SupportFixed in: gegl04-0:0.4.4-6.el8_4.1
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gegl
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gimp:flatpak/gegl

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2021-45463Important

gegl: shell expansion via a crafted pathname

Dec 15, 2021

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00021.html
gitlab.gnome.org / GNOME/gegl/-/blob/master/docs/NEWS.adoc
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
gitlab.gnome.org / GNOME/gegl/-/commit/bfce470f0f2f37968862129d5038b35429f2909b
PatchThird Party Advisory
gitlab.gnome.org / GNOME/gegl/-/issues/298
Vendor Advisory
gitlab.gnome.org / GNOME/gimp/-/commit/e8a31ba4f2ce7e6bc34882dc27c97fba993f5868
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CG635WJCNXHJM5U4BGMAAP4NK2YFTQXK
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZP5NDNOTMPI335FXE7VUPW7FXYTT7PYN
gimp.org / news/2021/12/21/gimp-2-10-30-released
Release NotesVendor Advisory