What is CVE-2023-3428?

CVE-2023-3428 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Heap-based Buffer Overflow. CVSS score: 6.2/10. Published 2023-10-04.

How severe is CVE-2023-3428?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.2 out of 10.

Is CVE-2023-3428 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Buffer overflow in Imagemagick

CVE-2023-3428

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in coders/tiff.c in ImageMagick. This issue may allow a local attacker to trick the user into opening a specially crafted file, resulting in an application crash and denial of service.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.003 (23.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.2 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, issue-tracking, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-3428?: CVE-2023-3428 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Heap-based Buffer Overflow. CVSS score: 6.2/10. Published 2023-10-04.
How severe is CVE-2023-3428?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.2 out of 10.
Is CVE-2023-3428 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.