What is CVE-2017-13769?

CVE-2017-13769 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-08-30.

How severe is CVE-2017-13769?

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

Out-of-bounds Read in Imagemagick

CVE-2017-13769

The WriteTHUMBNAILImage function in coders/thumbnail.c in ImageMagick through 7.0.6-10 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read) by sending a crafted JPEG file.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2017-08-30 · 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: 0.014 (71.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 71st percentile — 71.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.014 · newest: 0.014 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick
Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 14.04, 16.04, 17.10
Debian Linux — versions 8.0, 9.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4040 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-07 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4032 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/705 (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-13769?: CVE-2017-13769 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-08-30.
How severe is CVE-2017-13769?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.