What is CVE-2014-9837?

CVE-2014-9837 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-04-11.

How severe is CVE-2014-9837?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Out-of-bounds Read in Imagemagick

CVE-2014-9837

coders/pnm.c in ImageMagick 6.9.0-1 Beta and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted png file.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2017-04-11 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.018 (77.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 77th percentile — 77.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.018 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/imagemagick.git/commit/ (Patch)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/02/13 (mailing-list, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-9837?: CVE-2014-9837 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-04-11.
How severe is CVE-2014-9837?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.