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CVE-2017-14138

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-14138 is a critical memory leak vulnerability affecting ImageMagick versions 7.0.6-5 and earlier. The flaw, located in the ReadWEBPImage function, occurs because memory is not properly freed during specific VP8 errors when processing WEBP image files. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 9.8, indicating a severe impact with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise possible via a low-complexity network attack requiring no user interaction. Despite its critical severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0.6-5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.6-5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/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
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.06%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0206 is in the 68th 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 (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-14138Low

ImageMagick: Memory leak in ReadWEBPImage function in coders/webp.c

Sep 5, 2017

References

github.com / ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/639
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201711-07
Third Party Advisory