What is CVE-2017-9144?

CVE-2017-9144 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-05-22.

How severe is CVE-2017-9144?

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

Improper input validation in Imagemagick

CVE-2017-9144

In ImageMagick 7.0.5-5, a crafted RLE image can trigger a crash because of incorrect EOF handling in coders/rle.c.

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

Published 2017-05-22 · 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: 0.019 (78.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 78.3% 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

Imagemagick — versions 7.0.5-5
Debian Linux — versions 8.0, 9.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

References

www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3863 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/98603 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/f6240ee77847787f6d7618b669d3a2040a2d6… (Patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-9144?: CVE-2017-9144 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-05-22.
How severe is CVE-2017-9144?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.