What is CVE-2017-11525?

CVE-2017-11525 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-07-23.

How severe is CVE-2017-11525?

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

Resource exhaustion in Imagemagick

CVE-2017-11525

The ReadCINImage function in coders/cin.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.9-0 and 7.x before 7.0.6-1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted file.

EPSS: 0.041 (89.7th 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-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-11525?: CVE-2017-11525 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-07-23.
How severe is CVE-2017-11525?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.