HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2007-4988

Imagemagick vulnerability

CVSS
7.8
EPSS
3.1%
EPSS pct
86th
Exploited
No known
Sign extension error in the ReadDIBImage function in ImageMagick before 6.3.5-9 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted width value in an image file, which triggers an integer overflow and a heap-based buffer overflow.
Affected vendor
Imagemagick
Affected product
Imagemagick
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-681 — Incorrect Conversion between Numeric Types
Published
2007-09-24

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable with local access, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 86% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2007-4988

  • Confirm whether Imagemagick Imagemagick is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
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