What is CVE-2016-5010?

CVE-2016-5010 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-04-20.

How severe is CVE-2016-5010?

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

Out-of-bounds Read in Imagemagick

CVE-2016-5010

coders/tiff.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.5-3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted TIFF file.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2017-04-20 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.021 (81.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 81st percentile — 81.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.021 · newest: 0.021 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

git.imagemagick.org/repos/ImageMagick/commit/c20de102cc57f3739a8870f79e728e3b0b… (Patch)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-21 (vendor-advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Patch, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-5010?: CVE-2016-5010 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-04-20.
How severe is CVE-2016-5010?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.