What is CVE-2018-5358?

CVE-2018-5358 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-01-12.

How severe is CVE-2018-5358?

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

Vulnerability in Imagemagick

CVE-2018-5358

ImageMagick 7.0.7-22 Q16 has memory leaks in the EncodeImageAttributes function in coders/json.c, as demonstrated by the ReadPSDLayersInternal function in coders/psd.c.

EPSS: 0.017 (74.7th 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 7.0.7-22
Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 14.04, 16.04, 17.10
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-5358?: CVE-2018-5358 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-01-12.
How severe is CVE-2018-5358?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.