What is CVE-2014-9915?

CVE-2014-9915 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under CWE-189. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-03-23.

How severe is CVE-2014-9915?

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

Vulnerability in Imagemagick

CVE-2014-9915

Off-by-one error in ImageMagick before 6.6.0-4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted 8BIM profile.

Published 2017-03-23 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.009 (57.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 57th percentile — 57.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-189

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/26/9 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-9915?: CVE-2014-9915 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under CWE-189. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-03-23.
How severe is CVE-2014-9915?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.