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.

EPSS: 0.018 (76.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Imagemagick — versions 7.0.6-1
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)

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.