Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
CVE-2017-14341 is a denial-of-service issue in ImageMagick. A specially crafted WPG image can make affected ImageMagick code spend excessive CPU time, potentially slowing or exhausting services that process images.
Executive priority
Prioritize remediation for public upload, ticketing, CMS, or conversion systems using ImageMagick. Business impact is service degradation or outage, not confirmed data theft from the supplied evidence.
Technical view
The CVE describes a large loop in ReadWPGImage in coders/wpg.c in ImageMagick 7.0.6-6. The reported impact is CPU exhaustion when parsing a crafted WPG image file. Public references include an upstream issue, an upstream commit, and Ubuntu/Debian security updates.
Likely exposure
Exposure is most likely where ImageMagick processes untrusted images, especially uploads or automated file-conversion workflows that may accept WPG files. The source bundle does not provide a complete affected-version range.
Exploitation context
The bundle does not cite active exploitation and KEV is false. The only described attack condition is processing a crafted WPG image file. Treat this as a resource-exhaustion risk rather than confirmed remote code execution.
Researcher notes
Evidence identifies ImageMagick 7.0.6-6 and ReadWPGImage in coders/wpg.c. The source bundle lacks CVSS, CWE, complete affected ranges, and exploit-in-the-wild evidence. Use the upstream issue, commit, and distro advisories to confirm package-level status.
Mitigation direction
- Apply ImageMagick updates from your operating system or vendor guidance.
- Review Ubuntu USN-3681-1 if using affected Ubuntu packages.
- Review Debian DLA-1785-1 and DLA-2366-1 if using affected Debian packages.
- Limit processing of untrusted WPG files until patched, where operationally feasible.
- Prioritize internet-facing upload and image-conversion services.
Validation and detection
- Inventory ImageMagick installations and package versions across servers and containers.
- Identify applications that call ImageMagick on user-supplied image files.
- Check whether WPG files are accepted in upload or conversion workflows.
- Confirm vendor security updates are installed on affected hosts.
- Monitor image-processing workers for abnormal CPU exhaustion symptoms.
Public sources used
Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- Unknown
- CVSS
- Not scored
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
CNA and ADP enrichment extracted from CVE v5
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CVSS and timeline data
No CVSS vectors or timeline events were available in the normalized CVE source material.
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/654CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
- USN-3681-1CVE reference · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
- [debian-lts-announce] 20190514 [SECURITY] [DLA 1785-1] imagemagick security updateCVE reference · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200907 [SECURITY] [DLA 2366-1] imagemagick security updateCVE reference · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/7d63315a64267c565d1f34b9cb523a14616fed24CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
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CWE details
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