What is CVE-2015-8902?

CVE-2015-8902 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-02-27.

How severe is CVE-2015-8902?

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

Vulnerability in Imagemagick

CVE-2015-8902

The ReadBlobByte function in coders/pdb.c in ImageMagick 6.x before 6.9.0-5 Beta allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted PDB file.

Published 2017-02-27 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.020 (79.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 79th percentile — 79.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.020 · newest: 0.020 · 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, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/06/2 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
trac.imagemagick.org/changeset/17855 (Broken Link)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php (Exploit, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-8902?: CVE-2015-8902 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-02-27.
How severe is CVE-2015-8902?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.