What is CVE-2017-14682?

CVE-2017-14682 is a high-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2017-09-21.

How severe is CVE-2017-14682?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Imagemagick

CVE-2017-14682

GetNextToken in MagickCore/token.c in ImageMagick 7.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted SVG document, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-10928.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2017-09-21 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.023 (82.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 83rd percentile — 82.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.023 · newest: 0.023 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick — versions 7.0.6

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php (Exploit, Patch, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4040 (vendor-advisory)
usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/ (vendor-advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4032 (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-14682?: CVE-2017-14682 is a high-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2017-09-21.
How severe is CVE-2017-14682?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.