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CVE-2017-14175

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-14175 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in ImageMagick 7.0.6-1 Q16, specifically within the coders/xbm.c component, affecting various distributions including Canonical and Debian Linux. This flaw allows an attacker to cause high CPU consumption by providing a specially crafted XBM file that claims large dimensions but lacks sufficient data, leading to an infinite loop during image processing. Rated with a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), the vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and can be exploited remotely over the network (AV:N), resulting in high availability impact (A:H). There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0.6-1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.6-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
17.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.12%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0212 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 26,234 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 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)

github_advisorypatch 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-14175Low

ImageMagick: Lack of EOF check in the ReadXBMImage() function

Sep 7, 2017

References

github.com / ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/d9a8234d211da30baf9526fbebe9a8438ea7e11c
PatchVendor Advisory
github.com / ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/712
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00015.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00007.html
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201711-07
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3681-1
Third Party Advisory