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CVE-2017-12806
In ImageMagick 7.0.6-6, a memory exhaustion vulnerability was found in the function format8BIM, which allows attackers to cause a denial…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 2.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 13% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In ImageMagick 7.0.6-6, a memory exhaustion vulnerability was found in the function format8BIM, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 21 months later
· 21 months later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.9% · top 13% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/660 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- USN-4034-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-da4c20882c (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-425a1aa7c9 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1683 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200907 [SECURITY] [DLA 2366-1] imagemagick security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-4343 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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