What is CVE-2020-27769?

CVE-2020-27769 is a low-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 3.3/10. Published 2021-05-14.

How severe is CVE-2020-27769?

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

Integer overflow in Imagemagick

CVE-2020-27769

In ImageMagick versions before 7.0.9-0, there are outside the range of representable values of type 'float' at MagickCore/quantize.c.

Vulnerability class: Integer Overflow

Published 2021-05-14 · 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: 0.011 (64.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 64th percentile — 64.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick
Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 33
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop — versions 5.0, 6.0, 7.0
Imagemagick — versions ImageMagick versions before 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/2023/03/msg00008.html (mailing-list)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-27769?: CVE-2020-27769 is a low-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 3.3/10. Published 2021-05-14.
How severe is CVE-2020-27769?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.3 out of 10.