What is CVE-2015-8900?

CVE-2015-8900 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-02-27.

How severe is CVE-2015-8900?

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

Vulnerability in Imagemagick

CVE-2015-8900

The ReadHDRImage function in coders/hdr.c in ImageMagick 6.x and 7.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted HDR file.

Published 2017-02-27 · 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: 0.017 (76.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 77th percentile — 76.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.017 · newest: 0.017 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-835 — Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)

References

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/26/13 (mailing-list, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/06/2 (mailing-list, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Patch, Issue Tracking)
github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/97aa7d7cfd2027f6ba7ce42caf8b798541b9c… (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
trac.imagemagick.org/changeset/17846 (Broken Link)
www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php (Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
trac.imagemagick.org/changeset/17845 (Broken Link)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-8900?: CVE-2015-8900 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-02-27.
How severe is CVE-2015-8900?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.