What is CVE-2018-14435?

CVE-2018-14435 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-07-20.

How severe is CVE-2018-14435?

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

Vulnerability in Imagemagick

CVE-2018-14435

ImageMagick 7.0.8-4 has a memory leak in DecodeImage in coders/pcd.c.

EPSS: 0.021 (79.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Imagemagick — versions 7.0.8-4
Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 14.04, 16.04, 18.04
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-14435?: CVE-2018-14435 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-07-20.
How severe is CVE-2018-14435?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.