THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2017-9098
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2017-9098

Imagemagick vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
3.6%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
ImageMagick before 7.0.5-2 and GraphicsMagick before 1.3.24 use uninitialized memory in the RLE decoder, allowing an attacker to leak sensitive information from process memory space, as demonstrated by remote attacks against ImageMagick code in a long-running server process that converts image data on behalf of multiple users. This is caused by a missing initialization step in the ReadRLEImage function in coders/rle.c.
Affected vendor
Imagemagick
Affected product
Imagemagick
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-908 — Use of Uninitialized Resource
Published
2017-05-19

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 confidentiality.

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.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2017-9098

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