What is CVE-2017-11447?

CVE-2017-11447 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-07-19.

How severe is CVE-2017-11447?

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

Vulnerability in Imagemagick

CVE-2017-11447

The ReadSCREENSHOTImage function in coders/screenshot.c in ImageMagick before 7.0.6-1 has memory leaks, causing denial of service.

Published 2017-07-19 · 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: 0.022 (81.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 81st percentile — 81.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.022 · newest: 0.022 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/556 (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/99948 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/72a50e400d98d7a2fd610caedfeb9af043dc5… (Patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-11447?: CVE-2017-11447 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-07-19.
How severe is CVE-2017-11447?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.