LOW SEVERITY

CVE-2006-4144

Imagemagick vulnerability

CVSS
2.6
EPSS
10.8%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
Integer overflow in the ReadSGIImage function in sgi.c in ImageMagick before 6.2.9 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via large (1) bytes_per_pixel, (2) columns, and (3) rows values, which trigger a heap-based buffer overflow.
Affected vendor
Imagemagick
Affected product
Imagemagick
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published
2006-08-15

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 10.8% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2006-4144

  • Confirm whether Imagemagick Imagemagick is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-4144.
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