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CVE-2017-12805

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-12805 describes a memory exhaustion vulnerability within the ReadTIFFImage function of ImageMagick versions 7.0.6-6, allowing attackers to trigger a denial of service. This vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.0 score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity to achieve high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0.6-6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.6-6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.94%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0294 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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 (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: autotrace-0:0.31.1-38.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: emacs-1:24.3-23.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ImageMagick-0:6.9.10.68-3.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: inkscape-0:0.92.2-3.el7
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-12805Low

ImageMagick: memory exhaustion in function ReadTIFFImage causing denial of service

Aug 10, 2017

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00001.html
github.com / ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/664
ExploitThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00030.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PF62B5PJA2JDUOCKJGUQO3SPL74BEYSV
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WHIKB4TP6KBJWT2UIPWL5MWMG5QXKGEJ
usn.ubuntu.com / 4034-1