CVE-2018-15607: imagemagick Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2018-15607 is a high (CVSS 7.1) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in imagemagick. EPSS estimates a 5.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92.3% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 2Timeline
- 21-08-2018PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 05-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
In ImageMagick 7.0.8-11 Q16, a tiny input file 0x50 0x36 0x36 0x36 0x36 0x4c 0x36 0x38 0x36 0x36 0x36 0x36 0x36 0x36 0x1f 0x35 0x50 0x00 can result in a hang of several minutes during which CPU and memory resources are consumed until ultimately an attempted large memory allocation fails. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated6.5MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated6.5MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
5.17%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
92%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
-0.02 pp
From 5.19% on 18-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
1 foundImagemagick
Maturity: poc
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Debian1 product
- imagemagickAll versions (No fix recorded)
Imagemagick1 product
- imagemagick7.0.8-11:q16
Ubuntu1 product
- imagemagick< 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.13+esm21 | < 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.14 | < 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.7
3 vendors · 3 products
