What is CVE-2017-11505?

CVE-2017-11505 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Excessive Iteration. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-07-21.

How severe is CVE-2017-11505?

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

Vulnerability in Imagemagick

CVE-2017-11505

The ReadOneJNGImage function in coders/png.c in ImageMagick through 6.9.9-0 and 7.x through 7.0.6-1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (large loop and CPU consumption) via a malformed JNG file.

EPSS: 0.023 (81.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Imagemagick — versions 7.0.0-0, 7.0.1-0, 7.0.1-1
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-834 — Excessive Iteration

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-11505?: CVE-2017-11505 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Excessive Iteration. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-07-21.
How severe is CVE-2017-11505?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.