What is CVE-2019-13655?

CVE-2019-13655 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imgix, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-07-29.

How severe is CVE-2019-13655?

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

Resource exhaustion in Imgix

CVE-2019-13655

Imgix through 2019-06-19 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by manipulating a small JPEG file to specify dimensions of 64250x64250 pixels, which is mishandled during an attempt to load the 'whole image' into memory.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published 2019-07-29 · 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: 0.014 (70.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 71st percentile — 70.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.014 · newest: 0.014 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imgix

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

obsidianterminal.blogspot.com/2019/07/dos-in-imgix-cdns-image-processing.html (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-13655?: CVE-2019-13655 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imgix, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-07-29.
How severe is CVE-2019-13655?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.