What is CVE-2018-16750?

CVE-2018-16750 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-09-09.

How severe is CVE-2018-16750?

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

Is CVE-2018-16750 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Imagemagick

CVE-2018-16750

In ImageMagick 7.0.7-29 and earlier, a memory leak in the formatIPTCfromBuffer function in coders/meta.c was found.

Published 2018-09-09 · 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: 0.029 (86.5th percentile), scored 2026-10-03.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 86.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.029 · newest: 0.029 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick
Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 14.04, 16.04, 18.04

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

Public proof-of-concept exploits

RUB-SysSec/redqueen

References

github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1118 (Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
usn.ubuntu.com/3785-1/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/108492 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-16750?: CVE-2018-16750 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-09-09.
How severe is CVE-2018-16750?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2018-16750 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.