What is CVE-2017-17504?

CVE-2017-17504 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-12-11.

How severe is CVE-2017-17504?

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

Out-of-bounds Read in Imagemagick

CVE-2017-17504

ImageMagick before 7.0.7-12 has a coders/png.c Magick_png_read_raw_profile heap-based buffer over-read via a crafted file, related to ReadOneMNGImage.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2017-12-11 · 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: 0.016 (75.1th percentile), scored 2026-10-07.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 75th percentile — 75.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick
Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 14.04, 16.04, 17.10
Debian Linux — versions 7.0, 8.0, 9.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4074 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/872 (Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00000.html (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4204 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-17504?: CVE-2017-17504 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-12-11.
How severe is CVE-2017-17504?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.