9.8

CVE-2025-27796: graphicsmagick Use of Uninitialized Resource

CVSS: 9.8v3.1CriticalAnalyzed
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2025-27796CGA-2753-wc2x-qph2CGA-vrr4-fhfp-4ppw
Published 07-03-2025Last modified 07-03-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-27796 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) Use of Uninitialized Resource vulnerability in graphicsmagick. EPSS estimates a 0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 31% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
70/100
0100
High · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
9.8/10
010
Critical · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.39%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 3
OPENSUSE-SU-2025:14949-1CGA-F4FR-8GH2-F8WFUBUNTU-CVE-2025-27796

Timeline

  1. 07-03-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-03-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

ReadWPGImage in WPG in GraphicsMagick before 1.3.46 mishandles palette buffer allocation, resulting in out-of-bounds access to heap memory in ReadBlob.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.39%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

31%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.38% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.39%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Chainguard1 product
  • graphicsmagick-compat< 1.3.46-r0
Debian1 product
  • graphicsmagick< 1.4+really1.3.45+hg17689-1
Graphicsmagick1 product
Wolfi1 product
  • graphicsmagick-compat< 1.3.46-r0

4 vendors · 4 products

References

4 links