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CVE-2018-14437

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-14437 is a memory leak vulnerability in ImageMagick version 7.0.8-4, specifically within the parse8BIM function in coders/meta.c, affecting ImageMagick and Canonical Ubuntu Linux distributions. Rated as Medium severity (CVSS 6.5), it can be triggered remotely with low attack complexity, potentially leading to denial of service due to resource exhaustion. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, suggesting low current threat activity.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0.8-4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.8-4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/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
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.08%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0208 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 26,236 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 (6)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: autotrace-0:0.31.1-38.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: emacs-1:24.3-23.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ImageMagick-0:6.9.10.68-3.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: inkscape-0:0.92.2-3.el7
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: ImageMagick
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: ImageMagick

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-14437Low

ImageMagick: memory leak in parse8BIM in coders/meta.c

Jul 4, 2018

References

github.com / ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1190
ExploitThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3785-1
Third Party Advisory