What is CVE-2017-14137?

CVE-2017-14137 is a high-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-09-04.

How severe is CVE-2017-14137?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Imagemagick

CVE-2017-14137

ReadWEBPImage in coders/webp.c in ImageMagick 7.0.6-5 has an issue where memory allocation is excessive because it depends only on a length field in a header.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.012 (64.0th 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 7.0.6-5
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-14137?: CVE-2017-14137 is a high-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-09-04.
How severe is CVE-2017-14137?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.