What is CVE-2017-12674?

CVE-2017-12674 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Excessive Iteration. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-08-07.

How severe is CVE-2017-12674?

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

Vulnerability in Imagemagick

CVE-2017-12674

In ImageMagick 7.0.6-2, a CPU exhaustion vulnerability was found in the function ReadPDBImage in coders/pdb.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service.

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

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.016 (75.9th percentile), scored 2026-10-19.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 76th percentile — 75.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick — versions 7.0.6-2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-834 — Excessive Iteration

References

usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/ (vendor-advisory)
github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/604 (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00015.html (mailing-list)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00007.html (mailing-list)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-12674?: CVE-2017-12674 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Excessive Iteration. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-08-07.
How severe is CVE-2017-12674?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.