What is CVE-2017-12429?

CVE-2017-12429 is a high-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-08-04.

How severe is CVE-2017-12429?

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

Resource exhaustion in Imagemagick

CVE-2017-12429

In ImageMagick 7.0.6-1, a memory exhaustion vulnerability was found in the function ReadMIFFImage in coders/miff.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service.

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: 0.018 (78.4th percentile), scored 2026-10-04.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 78.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.017 · newest: 0.018 · change: +0.001

Affected products

Imagemagick — versions 7.0.6-1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/ (vendor-advisory)
github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/545 (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00007.html (mailing-list)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-12429?: CVE-2017-12429 is a high-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-08-04.
How severe is CVE-2017-12429?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.