What is CVE-2014-9808?

CVE-2014-9808 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-2014-9808?

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

Improper input validation in Imagemagick

CVE-2014-9808

ImageMagick allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and application crash) via a crafted dpc image.

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 (71.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 72nd percentile — 71.9% 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

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/02/13 (mailing-list, Patch, Mailing List)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/24/1 (mailing-list, Mailing List)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking)
anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/imagemagick.git/commit/ (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-9808?: CVE-2014-9808 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-2014-9808?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.