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CVE-2004-0981

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0981 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in ImageMagick versions prior to 6.1.0, specifically within its EXIF parsing routine, affecting products like Debian, Gentoo, and SUSE. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with maximum severity, as indicated by its CVSS score of 10.0, requiring no authentication or complex attack vectors. Despite its high theoretical risk, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:5.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:5.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.4.4.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:5.4.4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.4.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:5.4.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.4.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:5.4.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.84%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0584 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: ImageMagick-0:5.5.6-7
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-0981

security flaw

Oct 6, 2004

References

secunia.com / advisories/12995
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200411-11.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/17903
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10472
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-7-1
imagemagick.org / www/Changelog.html
securityfocus.org / bid/11548