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HIGH CVSS 2.0
CVE-2017-11523
ImageMagick ReadTXTImage Denial of Service
Description

The ReadTXTImage function in coders/txt.c in ImageMagick through 6.9.9-0 and 7.x through 7.0.6-1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted file, because the end-of-file condition is not considered.

INFO

Published Date :

July 22, 2017, 9:29 p.m.

Last Modified :

April 20, 2025, 1:37 a.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !

Source :

[email protected]
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2017-11523 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Imagemagick imagemagick
: Total Affected Vendor : 1 | Products : 1
CVSS Scores
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System is a standardized framework for assessing the severity of vulnerabilities in software and systems. We collect and displays CVSS scores from various sources for each CVE.
Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 2.0 HIGH [email protected]
CVSS 3.0 MEDIUM [email protected]
Solution
This addresses a denial-of-service vulnerability in ImageMagick via a crafted file.
  • Update ImageMagick to a non-vulnerable version.
  • Apply the latest security patches for ImageMagick.
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2017-11523.

URL Resource
https://bugs.debian.org/869210 Exploit Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/83e0f8ffd7eeb7661b0ff83257da23d24ca7f078 Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/a8f9c2aabed37cd6a728532d1aed13ae0f3dfd78 Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/591 Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00015.html
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4019
https://bugs.debian.org/869210 Exploit Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/83e0f8ffd7eeb7661b0ff83257da23d24ca7f078 Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/a8f9c2aabed37cd6a728532d1aed13ae0f3dfd78 Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/591 Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00015.html
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4019
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2017-11523 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2017-11523 weaknesses.

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2017-11523 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

Results are limited to the first 20 news articles due to potential performance issues.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2017-11523 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://bugs.debian.org/869210
    Added Reference https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/83e0f8ffd7eeb7661b0ff83257da23d24ca7f078
    Added Reference https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/a8f9c2aabed37cd6a728532d1aed13ae0f3dfd78
    Added Reference https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/591
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00015.html
    Added Reference https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4019
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CWE Remap by [email protected]

    Oct. 03, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CWE CWE-399 CWE-835
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00015.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 07, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4019 [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Jul. 26, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
    Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://bugs.debian.org/869210 No Types Assigned https://bugs.debian.org/869210 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/83e0f8ffd7eeb7661b0ff83257da23d24ca7f078 No Types Assigned https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/83e0f8ffd7eeb7661b0ff83257da23d24ca7f078 Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/591 No Types Assigned https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/591 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/a8f9c2aabed37cd6a728532d1aed13ae0f3dfd78 No Types Assigned https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/a8f9c2aabed37cd6a728532d1aed13ae0f3dfd78 Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE CWE-399
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:6.9.9-0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous) *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.0-0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.1-0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.1-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.1-2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.1-3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.1-4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.1-5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.1-6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.1-7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.1-8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.1-9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.1-10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.2-0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.2-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.2-2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.2-3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.2-4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.2-5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.2-6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.2-7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.2-8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.2-9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.2-10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.3-0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.3-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.3-2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.3-3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.3-4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.3-5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.3-6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.3-7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.3-8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.3-9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.3-10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.4-0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.4-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.4-2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.4-3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.4-4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.4-5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.4-6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.4-7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.4-8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.4-9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.4-10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.5-0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.5-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.5-4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.5-5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.5-6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.5-7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.5-8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.6-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Vulnerability Scoring Details
Base CVSS Score: 6.5
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Base CVSS Score: 7.1
Access Vector
Access Complexity
Authentication
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.66 }} 0.24%

score

0.70088

percentile