What is CVE-2017-9098?

CVE-2017-9098 is a high-severity vulnerability in Graphicsmagick, classified under Use of Uninitialized Resource. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-05-19.

How severe is CVE-2017-9098?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2017-9098 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Graphicsmagick

CVE-2017-9098

ImageMagick before 7.0.5-2 and GraphicsMagick before 1.3.24 use uninitialized memory in the RLE decoder, allowing an attacker to leak sensitive information from process memory space, as demonstrated by remote attacks against ImageMagick code in a long-running server process that converts image data on behalf of multiple users. This is caused by a missing initialization step in the ReadRLEImage function in coders/rle.c.

Published 2017-05-19 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.036 (88.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 89th percentile — 88.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.036 · newest: 0.036 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-908 — Use of Uninitialized Resource

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cvemon

References

hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/diff/0a5b75e019b6/coders/rle.c (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/1c358ffe0049f768dd49a8a889c1cbf99ac98… (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/98593 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00002.html (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2017/05/bleed-continues-18-byte-file-14k-bounty… (Technical Description, Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3863 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-9098?: CVE-2017-9098 is a high-severity vulnerability in Graphicsmagick, classified under Use of Uninitialized Resource. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-05-19.
How severe is CVE-2017-9098?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2017-9098 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.