What is CVE-2019-18853?

CVE-2019-18853 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Uncontrolled Recursion. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-11-11.

How severe is CVE-2019-18853?

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

Vulnerability in Imagemagick

CVE-2019-18853

ImageMagick before 7.0.9-0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service because XML_PARSE_HUGE is not properly restricted in coders/svg.c, related to SVG and libxml2.

EPSS: 0.015 (71.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Imagemagick
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-674 — Uncontrolled Recursion

References

cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_MISC, Tool Signature)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-18853?: CVE-2019-18853 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Uncontrolled Recursion. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-11-11.
How severe is CVE-2019-18853?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.