What is CVE-2019-11470?

CVE-2019-11470 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-04-23.

How severe is CVE-2019-11470?

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

Resource exhaustion in Imagemagick

CVE-2019-11470

The cineon parsing component in ImageMagick 7.0.8-26 Q16 allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (uncontrolled resource consumption) by crafting a Cineon image with an incorrect claimed image size. This occurs because ReadCINImage in coders/cin.c lacks a check for insufficient image data in a file.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published 2019-04-23 · 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: 0.036 (89.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 89th percentile — 89.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.036 · newest: 0.036 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick — versions 7.0.8-26

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1472 (Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/e3cdce6fe12193f235b8c0ae5efe6880a25eb… (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00057.html (vendor-advisory)
usn.ubuntu.com/4034-1/ (vendor-advisory)
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/… (vendor-advisory)
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/… (vendor-advisory)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00001.html (vendor-advisory)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00028.html (mailing-list)
www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4712 (vendor-advisory)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00030.html (mailing-list)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-11470?: CVE-2019-11470 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-04-23.
How severe is CVE-2019-11470?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.