{"id":"CVE-2017-6502","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-6502","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T20:06:20.882Z","title":"A specially crafted webp file could lead to a file-descriptor leak in libmagickcore (thus, a DoS).","description":"An issue was discovered in ImageMagick 6.9.7. A specially crafted webp file could lead to a file-descriptor leak in libmagickcore (thus, a DoS).","published":"2017-03-06T02:59:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:22:28.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-119"],"affected":["imagemagick/imagemagick"],"epss":{"score":0.00894,"percentile":0.59299,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.89%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96763","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/126c7c98ea788241922c30df4a5633ea692cf8df","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96763","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/126c7c98ea788241922c30df4a5633ea692cf8df","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6502","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}