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CVE-2016-5240

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-5240 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting GraphicsMagick before version 1.3.24 and ImageMagick's SVG renderer. This flaw, residing in the DrawDashPolygon function, allows remote attackers to trigger an infinite loop by processing a specially crafted, circularly defined SVG file. Rated Medium severity (CVSS 5.5), exploitation requires user interaction (UI:R) and could lead to high availability impact (A:H), though it has a low attack complexity. 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
<= 1.3.23CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:graphicsmagick:graphicsmagick:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/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
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0218 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 5,760 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 (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: ImageMagick-0:6.7.2.7-5.el6_8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ImageMagick-0:6.7.8.9-15.el7_2
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2Fixed in: ImageMagick
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: ImageMagick

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-5240Low

ImageMagick: SVG converting issue resulting in DoS

May 1, 2016

References

hg.graphicsmagick.org / hg/GraphicsMagick
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016:1237
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3746
graphicsmagick.org / ChangeLog-2016.html
Release NotesVendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/05/01/4
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/05/01/6
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/06/02/14
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
securityfocus.com / bid/89348
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry