What is CVE-2017-10800?

CVE-2017-10800 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Graphicsmagick, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-07-03.

How severe is CVE-2017-10800?

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

Resource exhaustion in Graphicsmagick

CVE-2017-10800

When GraphicsMagick 1.3.25 processes a MATLAB image in coders/mat.c, it can lead to a denial of service (OOM) in ReadMATImage() if the size specified for a MAT Object is larger than the actual amount of data.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published 2017-07-03 · 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: 0.012 (67.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 68th percentile — 67.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.012 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Graphicsmagick — versions 1.3.25

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321 (vendor-advisory)
hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/e5761e3a2012 (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/99356 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-10800?: CVE-2017-10800 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Graphicsmagick, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-07-03.
How severe is CVE-2017-10800?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.