CVE-2017-9098
ImageMagick before 7.0.5-2 and GraphicsMagick before 1.3.24 use uninitialized memory in the RLE decoder, allowing an attacker to leak sensitive information from process memory space, as demonstrated by remote attacks against ImageMagick code in a…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.57%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
ImageMagick before 7.0.5-2 and GraphicsMagick before 1.3.24 use uninitialized memory in the RLE decoder, allowing an attacker to leak sensitive information from process memory space, as demonstrated by remote attacks against ImageMagick code in a long-running server process that converts image data on behalf of multiple users. This is caused by a missing initialization step in the ReadRLEImage function in coders/rle.c.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 3.57% probability · 89th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-908
- Affected
- imagemagick/imagemagick · graphicsmagick/graphicsmagick · debian/debian linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 3.6% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/diff/0a5b75e019b6/coders/rle.cPatch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3863Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98593Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/1c358ffe0049f768dd49a8a889c1cbf99ac9849bPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00002.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2017/05/bleed-continues-18-byte-file-14k-bounty.htmlExploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/diff/0a5b75e019b6/coders/rle.cPatch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3863Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98593Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/1c358ffe0049f768dd49a8a889c1cbf99ac9849bPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00002.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2017/05/bleed-continues-18-byte-file-14k-bounty.htmlExploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.