CVE-2014-9849

Opensuse vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

3.6%

EPSS pct

88th

Exploited

No known

The png coder in ImageMagick allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash).

Affected vendor

Opensuse

Affected product

Opensuse

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Published

2017-03-20

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 3.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

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