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Plain-English summary
CVE-2017-9405 is a denial-of-service issue in ImageMagick 7.0.5-5. A crafted file can trigger a memory leak while ImageMagick reads ICON images, potentially degrading or exhausting services that process untrusted image uploads.
Executive priority
Prioritize if ImageMagick handles public uploads or customer-supplied files. The known impact is availability loss, not data theft or code execution, and active exploitation is not established by the provided sources.
Technical view
The source describes a memory leak in ReadICONImage in icon.c around line 452 in ImageMagick 7.0.5-5. The trigger is a crafted file parsed as an ICON image. No CVSS score, CWE, patch version, or affected CPE data is provided in the bundle.
Likely exposure
Exposure is most likely where ImageMagick 7.0.5-5 processes user-supplied or externally sourced image files, especially upload, thumbnailing, conversion, or document-processing pipelines.
Exploitation context
The CVE source describes attacker-supplied crafted files causing denial of service. CISA KEV status is false in the bundle, and no cited source confirms active exploitation.
Researcher notes
Evidence is sparse. The bundle identifies ImageMagick 7.0.5-5, ReadICONImage, and a memory leak DoS via crafted file, but does not provide CVSS, CWE, fixed release, or detailed affected-version range.
Mitigation direction
- Inventory ImageMagick deployments and identify any version 7.0.5-5 usage.
- Check ImageMagick vendor guidance and release notes for the fixed version.
- Restrict or isolate processing of untrusted ICON/image files where practical.
- Apply resource limits to image conversion workers to contain memory exhaustion.
- Monitor image-processing services for abnormal memory growth or restarts.
Validation and detection
- Confirm installed ImageMagick versions on servers, containers, and build images.
- Review upload and conversion paths that accept ICON or arbitrary image files.
- Check whether image-processing workers have memory and execution limits.
- Verify monitoring covers memory growth, process crashes, and conversion failures.
Public sources used
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- Unknown
- CVSS
- Not scored
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
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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/457CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
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