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CVE-2019-12978

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-12978 is a "use of uninitialized value" vulnerability affecting ImageMagick versions 7.0.8-34, specifically within the ReadPANGOImage function in coders/pango.c. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a significant risk with potential for high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring user interaction for exploitation. Despite its severity, there is currently no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0.8-34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.8-34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0186 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 11,621 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
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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
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: inkscape-0:0.92.2-3.el7
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-12978Moderate

imagemagick: use of uninitialized value in function ReadPANGOImage in coders/pango.c

Jun 26, 2019

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00069.html
github.com / ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1519
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00030.html
usn.ubuntu.com / 4192-1
debian.org / security/2020/dsa-4712
securityfocus.com / bid/108913