GHSA-qv2q-c278-pch5: ImageMagick: Information Disclosure in PasskeyEncipherImage via AES-CTR nonce reuse

May 21, 2026

The PasskeyEncipherImage method is vulnerable to information disclosure via AES-CTR nonce reuse. ImageMagick has update the documentation on its website to make it more clear that this is happening: https://imagemagick.org/cipher/

References

github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-qv2q-c278-pch5
github.com/advisories/GHSA-qv2q-c278-pch5
imagemagick.org/cipher

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