What is CVE-2017-12643?

CVE-2017-12643 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-08-07.

How severe is CVE-2017-12643?

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

Resource exhaustion in Imagemagick

CVE-2017-12643

ImageMagick 7.0.6-1 has a memory exhaustion vulnerability in ReadOneJNGImage in coders\png.c.

Published 2017-08-07 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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 7.0.6-1
Debian Linux — versions 8.0, 9.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/549 (Patch, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/100218 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00015.html (mailing-list, Third Party Advisory)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00007.html (mailing-list, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/d9ccd8227c4c88a907cda5278408b73552cb0… (Patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-12643?: CVE-2017-12643 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-08-07.
How severe is CVE-2017-12643?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.