What is CVE-2017-14533?

CVE-2017-14533 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-09-18.

How severe is CVE-2017-14533?

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

Vulnerability in Imagemagick

CVE-2017-14533

ImageMagick 7.0.6-6 has a memory leak in ReadMATImage in coders/mat.c.

Published 2017-09-18 · 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: 0.018 (77.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 77.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.018 · 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-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/648 (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/100885 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-14533?: CVE-2017-14533 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-09-18.
How severe is CVE-2017-14533?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.