What is CVE-2017-17883?

CVE-2017-17883 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-12-27.

How severe is CVE-2017-17883?

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

Vulnerability in Imagemagick

CVE-2017-17883

In ImageMagick 7.0.7-12 Q16, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function ReadPGXImage in coders/pgx.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted PGX image file.

EPSS: 0.011 (61.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Imagemagick — versions 7.0.7-12
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-17883?: CVE-2017-17883 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-12-27.
How severe is CVE-2017-17883?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.