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CVE-2017-7962

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-7962 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting ImageWorsener 1.3.0, specifically within the iwgif_read_image function, and impacts the entropymine imageworsener product. An attacker can trigger a divide-by-zero error and application crash by providing a specially crafted file. This vulnerability has a medium severity CVSS score of 5.5, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and leading to high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code available (e.g., Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it has received no community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:entropymine:imageworsener:1.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
65.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0121 is in the 76th 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 (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

blogs.gentoo.org / ago/2017/04/17/imageworsener-divide-by-zero-in-iwgif_record_pixel-imagew-gif-c
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / jsummers/imageworsener/commit/ca3356eb49fee03e2eaf6b6aff826988c1122d93
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / jsummers/imageworsener/issues/15
Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201706-06
Third Party Advisory