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CVE-2018-16642

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-16642 is an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in ImageMagick 7.0.7-37, specifically within the InsertRow function in coders/cut.c, which can be triggered by processing a crafted image file. This flaw primarily affects various distributions of ImageMagick on Canonical and Debian Linux, potentially leading to a denial of service. Rated as Medium severity (CVSS 6.5), it requires user interaction (UI:R) and can be exploited remotely (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), resulting in high availability impact (A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, suggesting a low current threat landscape.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0.7-37CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.7-37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.04%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0304 is in the 94th 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 (7)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
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 5Fixed in: ImageMagick
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: ImageMagick

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-16642Moderate

ImageMagick: out-of-bounds write in InsertRow function in coders/cut.c

Jun 1, 2018

References

github.com / ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/cc4ac341f29fa368da6ef01c207deaf8c61f6a2e
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1162
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00002.html
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3785-1
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2018/dsa-4316
Third Party Advisory