What is CVE-2016-10069?

CVE-2016-10069 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-03-02.

How severe is CVE-2016-10069?

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

Improper input validation in Imagemagick

CVE-2016-10069

coders/mat.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.4-5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a mat file with an invalid number of frames.

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

Published 2017-03-02 · 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: 0.019 (78.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 79th percentile — 78.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.019 · newest: 0.019 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick
openSUSE Project Leap — versions 42.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-02/msg00028.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/8a370f9ab120faf182aa160900ba692ba8e2b… (Patch)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Patch, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/95216 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/26/9 (mailing-list, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-10069?: CVE-2016-10069 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-03-02.
How severe is CVE-2016-10069?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.