What is CVE-2017-11140?

CVE-2017-11140 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Graphicsmagick, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-07-10.

How severe is CVE-2017-11140?

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

Resource exhaustion in Graphicsmagick

CVE-2017-11140

The ReadJPEGImage function in coders/jpeg.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 creates a pixel cache before a successful read of a scanline, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via crafted JPEG files.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published 2017-07-10 · 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: 0.018 (77.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-28.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 77.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.018 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Graphicsmagick — versions 1.3.26

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/b4139088b49a (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/99503 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321 (vendor-advisory)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00002.html (mailing-list)
usn.ubuntu.com/4206-1/ (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-11140?: CVE-2017-11140 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Graphicsmagick, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-07-10.
How severe is CVE-2017-11140?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.