VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-17682

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability2.98%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-12-14
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In ImageMagick 7.0.7-12 Q16, a large loop vulnerability was found in the function ExtractPostscript in coders/wpg.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU exhaustion) via a crafted wpg image file that triggers a ReadWPGImage call.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Primary references