Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2017-6499

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-6499 is a memory leak vulnerability in Magick++ within ImageMagick 6.9.7, affecting Debian and ImageMagick products. This flaw allows a specially crafted file to trigger a nested exception, leading to a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. Rated as MEDIUM severity (CVSS 5.5), it requires local access and user interaction (e.g., opening a malicious file) to exploit, with the primary impact being system availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.9.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:6.9.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.33%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
68.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0133 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 5,758 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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 (5)

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
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2Fixed in: ImageMagick

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-6499Low

ImageMagick: Memory leak in Magick++

Feb 9, 2017

References

bugs.debian.org / 856880
Issue TrackingMailing ListThird Party Advisory
github.com / ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/3358f060fc182551822576b2c0a8850faab5d543
PatchThird Party Advisory
imagemagick.org / discourse-server/viewtopic.php
PatchVendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3808
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/96590
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry