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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2016-5841

Integer overflow in MagickCore/profile.c in ImageMagick before 7.0.2-1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving the offset variable.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 13.4%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 13.4%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

Integer overflow in MagickCore/profile.c in ImageMagick before 7.0.2-1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving the offset variable.

CVSS 3.0
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
13.39% probability · 96th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-190
Affected
imagemagick/imagemagick · oracle/solaris
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%8%15%21 September 2026: 11.51%22 September 2026: 13.39%4 November 2026: 13.39%21 September 20264 November 2026

EPSS moved from 11.5% on 21 September 2026 to 13.4% on 4 November 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.