What is CVE-2016-10053?

CVE-2016-10053 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Divide By Zero. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-03-23.

How severe is CVE-2016-10053?

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

Vulnerability in Imagemagick

CVE-2016-10053

The WriteTIFFImage function in coders/tiff.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.5-8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) via a crafted file.

Published 2017-03-23 · 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: 0.016 (74.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 75th percentile — 74.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-369 — Divide By Zero

References

github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/f983dcdf9c178e0cbc49608a78713c5669aa1… (Patch, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/95179 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/26/9 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/728dc6a600cf4cbdac846964c85cc04339db8… (Patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-10053?: CVE-2016-10053 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Divide By Zero. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-03-23.
How severe is CVE-2016-10053?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.