What is CVE-2017-11360?

CVE-2017-11360 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Excessive Iteration. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-07-17.

How severe is CVE-2017-11360?

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

Vulnerability in Imagemagick

CVE-2017-11360

The ReadRLEImage function in coders\rle.c in ImageMagick 7.0.6-1 has a large loop vulnerability via a crafted rle file that triggers a huge number_pixels value.

Published 2017-07-17 · 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: 0.011 (64.8th percentile), scored 2026-10-19.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 65th percentile — 64.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.011 · change: +0.001

Affected products

Imagemagick — versions 7.0.6-1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-834 — Excessive Iteration

References

github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/518 (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-11360?: CVE-2017-11360 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Excessive Iteration. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-07-17.
How severe is CVE-2017-11360?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.