What is CVE-2017-9440?

CVE-2017-9440 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-06-05.

How severe is CVE-2017-9440?

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

Vulnerability in Imagemagick

CVE-2017-9440

In ImageMagick 7.0.5-5, a memory leak was found in the function ReadPSDChannel in coders/psd.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Published 2017-06-05 · 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: 0.015 (73.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 74th percentile — 73.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.015 · newest: 0.015 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick — versions 7.0.5-5

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/98908 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/462 (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-9440?: CVE-2017-9440 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-06-05.
How severe is CVE-2017-9440?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.