CVE-2013-4298

Imagemagick vulnerability

CVSS

4.3

EPSS

4.7%

EPSS pct

91th

Exploited

No known

The ReadGIFImage function in coders/gif.c in ImageMagick before 6.7.8-8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted comment in a GIF image.

Affected vendor

Imagemagick

Affected product

Imagemagick

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds

Published

2013-09-10

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 4.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

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