What is CVE-2017-7594?

CVE-2017-7594 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Libtiff, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-04-09.

How severe is CVE-2017-7594?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Libtiff

CVE-2017-7594

The OJPEGReadHeaderInfoSecTablesDcTable function in tif_ojpeg.c in LibTIFF 4.0.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory leak) via a crafted image.

Published 2017-04-09 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.019 (78.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 78.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.019 · newest: 0.019 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Libtiff — versions 4.0.7

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3844 (vendor-advisory)
bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/97503 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-27 (vendor-advisory)
usn.ubuntu.com/3602-1/ (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-7594?: CVE-2017-7594 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Libtiff, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-04-09.
How severe is CVE-2017-7594?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.