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CVE-2014-9852

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-9852 is a critical vulnerability in ImageMagick, affecting imagemagick, opensuse, and suse products. It involves a use-after-free error in distribute-cache.c, allowing remote attackers to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and no user interaction. While rated with a CVSS score of 9.8 and a FAUCET Risk Score of 93/100, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or KEV catalog inclusion. Despite its age, the vulnerability still garners significant community discussion, with 10 mentions, though no media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 6.9.4-0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:12:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:12:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_software_development_kit:12:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.93%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0293 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: ImageMagick
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: ImageMagick
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ImageMagick
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2Fixed in: ImageMagick

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-9852Moderate

ImageMagick: incorrect usage of object after it has been destroyed

Dec 24, 2014

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00002.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00011.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00018.html
Third Party Advisory
anonscm.debian.org / cgit/collab-maint/imagemagick.git/commit
Patch
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/06/02/13
Mailing ListPatch