Medium severity · published Nov 11, 2019
CVE-2019-18853
ImageMagick before 7.0.9-0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service because XML_PARSE_HUGE is not properly restricted in coders/svg.c, related to SVG and libxml2
6.5
CVSS
1.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
ImageMagick before 7.0.9-0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service because XML_PARSE_HUGE is not properly restricted in coders/svg.c, related to SVG and libxml2.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.5% · higher than 74% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
IM
Imagemagick · Imagemagick
7.0.0-0 before 7.0.9-0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-18853
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-18853
Third Party Advisory
https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-19-136
Patch
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/ec9c8944af2bfc65c697ca44f93a727a99b405f1
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