What is CVE-2018-5246?

CVE-2018-5246 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-01-05.

How severe is CVE-2018-5246?

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

Vulnerability in Imagemagick

CVE-2018-5246

In ImageMagick 7.0.7-17 Q16, there are memory leaks in ReadPATTERNImage in coders/pattern.c.

Published 2018-01-05 · 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: 0.037 (89.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 89th percentile — 89.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.037 · newest: 0.037 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick — versions 7.0.7-17
Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 14.04, 16.04, 17.10

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/102469 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/929 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-5246?: CVE-2018-5246 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-01-05.
How severe is CVE-2018-5246?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.