What is CVE-2017-12418?

CVE-2017-12418 is a high-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-08-04.

How severe is CVE-2017-12418?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Imagemagick

CVE-2017-12418

ImageMagick 7.0.6-5 has memory leaks in the parse8BIMW and format8BIM functions in coders/meta.c, related to the WriteImage function in MagickCore/constitute.c.

Published 2017-08-04 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.025 (84.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 84th percentile — 84.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.025 · newest: 0.025 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick — versions 7.0.6-5

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/643 (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/ (vendor-advisory)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-07 (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-12418?: CVE-2017-12418 is a high-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-08-04.
How severe is CVE-2017-12418?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.