What is CVE-2017-12691?

CVE-2017-12691 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-09-01.

How severe is CVE-2017-12691?

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

Resource exhaustion in Imagemagick

CVE-2017-12691

The ReadOneLayer function in coders/xcf.c in ImageMagick 7.0.6-6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted file.

Published 2017-09-01 · 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: 0.019 (79.3th percentile), scored 2026-10-04.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 79th percentile — 79.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.022 · newest: 0.019 · change: -0.002

Affected products

Imagemagick — versions 7.0.6-6
Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 14.04, 16.04, 17.10

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-07 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/656 (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-2017-12691?: CVE-2017-12691 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-09-01.
How severe is CVE-2017-12691?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.