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CVE-2012-0248

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-0248 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in ImageMagick versions 6.7.5-7 and earlier, affecting distributions like Canonical, Debian, and Red Hat. An attacker can trigger an infinite loop and hang by providing a specially crafted image where IFD IOP tags reference the beginning of the IDF. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and resulting in high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 6.7.5-7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.10%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0210 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 5,758 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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 (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: ImageMagick-0:6.2.8.0-15.el5_8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: ImageMagick-0:6.5.4.7-6.el6_2
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-0248Moderate

ImageMagick: invalid validation of images denial of service

Feb 3, 2012

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-0544.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-0545.html
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/47926
Broken Link
secunia.com / advisories/48247
Broken Link
secunia.com / advisories/48259
Broken Link
secunia.com / advisories/49043
Broken Link
secunia.com / advisories/49063
Broken Link
secunia.com / advisories/49068
Broken Link
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-1435-1
Third Party Advisory
cert.fi / en/reports/2012/vulnerability595210.html
Broken Link
debian.org / security/2012/dsa-2427
Third Party Advisory
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-201203-09.xml
Third Party Advisory
imagemagick.org / discourse-server/viewtopic.php
Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
osvdb.org / 79003
Broken Link
securityfocus.com / bid/51957
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry