What is CVE-2018-15607?

CVE-2018-15607 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-08-21.

How severe is CVE-2018-15607?

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

Resource exhaustion in Imagemagick

CVE-2018-15607

In ImageMagick 7.0.8-11 Q16, a tiny input file 0x50 0x36 0x36 0x36 0x36 0x4c 0x36 0x38 0x36 0x36 0x36 0x36 0x36 0x36 0x1f 0x35 0x50 0x00 can result in a hang of several minutes during which CPU and memory resources are consumed until ultimately an attempted large memory allocation fails. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published 2018-08-21 · 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: 0.052 (92.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 92.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.052 · newest: 0.052 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick — versions 7.0.8-11

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1255 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/105137 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
usn.ubuntu.com/4034-1/ (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-15607?: CVE-2018-15607 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-08-21.
How severe is CVE-2018-15607?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.