What is CVE-2017-14342?

CVE-2017-14342 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-09-12.

How severe is CVE-2017-14342?

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

Resource exhaustion in Imagemagick

CVE-2017-14342

ImageMagick 7.0.6-6 has a memory exhaustion vulnerability in ReadWPGImage in coders/wpg.c via a crafted wpg image file.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published 2017-09-12 · 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: 0.014 (70.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 71st percentile — 70.9% 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 — versions 7.0.6-6
Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 14.04, 16.04, 17.10

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/650 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-14342?: CVE-2017-14342 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-09-12.
How severe is CVE-2017-14342?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.