What is CVE-2020-27768?

CVE-2020-27768 is a low-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 3.3/10. Published 2021-02-23.

How severe is CVE-2020-27768?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.3 out of 10.

Integer overflow in Imagemagick

CVE-2020-27768

In ImageMagick, there is an outside the range of representable values of type 'unsigned int' at MagickCore/quantum-private.h. This flaw affects ImageMagick versions prior to 7.0.9-0.

Vulnerability class: Integer Overflow

Published 2021-02-23 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.3 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.014 (71.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 72nd percentile — 71.6% 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

Imagemagick
Debian Linux — versions 9.0
Imagemagick — versions ImageMagick prior to 7.0.9-0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00030.html (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00008.html (mailing-list)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-27768?: CVE-2020-27768 is a low-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 3.3/10. Published 2021-02-23.
How severe is CVE-2020-27768?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.3 out of 10.