CVE-2018-15607 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Imagemagick

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionCWE-20 — Improper Input Validation8 documents7 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.9%
top 24.20%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
ImagemagickDebian Imagemagick
Timeline
PublishedAug 21
Latest updateMay 14

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 vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-w9f3-hh6v-j26p: In ImageMagick 7↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2018-15607: In ImageMagick 7↗2018-08-21
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
ImageMagick vulnerabilities↗2019-06-25
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Red Hat
ImageMagick: CPU Exhaustion via crafted input file↗2018-08-21
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Debian
CVE-2018-15607: imagemagick - In ImageMagick 7.0.8-11 Q16, a tiny input file 0x50 0x36 0x36 0x36 0x36 0x4c 0x3...↗2018
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-15607 ImageMagick: CPU Exhaustion via crafted input file↗2018-08-27
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-15607 ImageMagick: CPU Exhaustion via crafted input file [fedora-all]↗2018-08-27
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