What is CVE-2019-10649?

CVE-2019-10649 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-03-30.

How severe is CVE-2019-10649?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Imagemagick

CVE-2019-10649

In ImageMagick 7.0.8-36 Q16, there is a memory leak in the function SVGKeyValuePairs of coders/svg.c, which allows an attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted image file.

Published 2019-03-30 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.017 (76.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 77th percentile — 76.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.017 · newest: 0.017 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick — versions 7.0.8-36
Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
Debian Linux — versions 10.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1533 (Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/107645 (vdb-entry, Broken Link)
usn.ubuntu.com/4034-1/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4712 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-10649?: CVE-2019-10649 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-03-30.
How severe is CVE-2019-10649?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.