What is CVE-2014-9806?

CVE-2014-9806 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-03-30.

How severe is CVE-2014-9806?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Improper input validation in Imagemagick

CVE-2014-9806

ImageMagick allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor consumption) via a crafted file.

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

Published 2017-03-30 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.014 (71.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 71st percentile — 71.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.014 · newest: 0.014 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/02/13 (mailing-list, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/24/1 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-9806?: CVE-2014-9806 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-03-30.
How severe is CVE-2014-9806?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.