What is CVE-2017-17681?

CVE-2017-17681 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-12-14.

How severe is CVE-2017-17681?

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

Vulnerability in Imagemagick

CVE-2017-17681

In ImageMagick 7.0.7-12 Q16, an infinite loop vulnerability was found in the function ReadPSDChannelZip in coders/psd.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU exhaustion) via a crafted psd image file.

Published 2017-12-14 · 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: 0.030 (86.8th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 86.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.030 · newest: 0.030 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick — versions 7.0.7-12
Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 14.04, 16.04, 17.10

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-835 — Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)

References

github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/869 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/102206 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00030.html (mailing-list)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-17681?: CVE-2017-17681 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-12-14.
How severe is CVE-2017-17681?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.