{"id":"CVE-2018-5685","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-5685","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T19:04:14.688Z","title":"Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via an image file with a crafted bit-field mask value.","description":"In GraphicsMagick 1.3.27, there is an infinite loop and application hang in the ReadBMPImage function (coders/bmp.c). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via an image file with a crafted bit-field mask value.","published":"2018-01-14T02:29:05.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:00:36.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":6.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-835"],"affected":["graphicsmagick/graphicsmagick","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.01938,"percentile":0.79991,"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 (1.94%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/52a91ddb1aa6","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00018.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00002.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/541/","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/52a91ddb1aa6","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00018.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00002.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/541/","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5685","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."}