What is CVE-2018-10804?

CVE-2018-10804 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-05-08.

How severe is CVE-2018-10804?

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

Vulnerability in Imagemagick

CVE-2018-10804

ImageMagick version 7.0.7-28 contains a memory leak in WriteTIFFImage in coders/tiff.c.

Published 2018-05-08 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.020 (80.2th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 80th percentile — 80.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.020 · newest: 0.020 · change: -0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick — versions 7.0.7-28
Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 14.04, 16.04, 17.10

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1053 (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-10804?: CVE-2018-10804 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-05-08.
How severe is CVE-2018-10804?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.