What is CVE-2016-7513?

CVE-2016-7513 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under CWE-189. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-04-20.

How severe is CVE-2016-7513?

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

Vulnerability in Imagemagick

CVE-2016-7513

Off-by-one error in magick/cache.c in ImageMagick allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via unspecified vectors.

Published 2017-04-20 · 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: 0.025 (84.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 84th percentile — 84.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.025 · newest: 0.025 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-189

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/93121 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/22/2 (mailing-list, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/a54fe0e8600eaf3dc6fe717d3c0398001507f… (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi (Third Party Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-7513?: CVE-2016-7513 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under CWE-189. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-04-20.
How severe is CVE-2016-7513?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.