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Plain-English summary
This CVE describes a denial-of-service risk in Imgix image processing. A specially crafted small JPEG can claim extremely large dimensions, causing excessive memory use when processed. The business impact is service degradation or outage for image-dependent pages, not data theft based on the supplied sources.
Executive priority
Treat as moderate operational risk if Imgix handles untrusted images in critical customer workflows. Prioritize validation for public upload or image-proxy paths. Urgency is lower where all processed images are trusted and prevalidated.
Technical view
Imgix through 2019-06-19 reportedly mishandles JPEG metadata declaring 64250x64250 dimensions and attempts to load the whole image into memory. The disclosed impact is resource consumption leading to denial of service. The source bundle provides no CVSS, CWE, CPE, vendor advisory, or confirmed fixed version.
Likely exposure
Exposure is most plausible where public users can supply or influence images processed by Imgix, including upload flows, URL-based image transforms, or proxied third-party images. Exact affected versions and configurations are not defined in the supplied CVE data.
Exploitation context
The bundle does not show CISA KEV inclusion or cite active exploitation. It supports a remotely triggerable denial-of-service condition from public disclosure, but not exploitation in the wild or broader compromise.
Researcher notes
Evidence is sparse: the CVE record gives the core memory-consumption mechanism but no CVSS vector, CWE, CPE, or official fix reference. Avoid assuming specific Imgix deployment behavior without vendor or environment confirmation.
Mitigation direction
- Check Imgix guidance for affected service dates and remediation status.
- Limit user-controlled image sources sent to Imgix processing paths.
- Reject images with excessive declared dimensions before CDN processing.
- Apply rate limits to image transformation and fetch endpoints.
- Monitor image processing failures, memory pressure, and CDN errors.
Validation and detection
- Inventory routes and features that send user-supplied images to Imgix.
- Review logs for oversized image dimensions and repeated processing errors.
- Confirm validation rejects excessive dimensions before full image decode.
- Check whether current Imgix configuration follows vendor guidance.
Public sources used
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- 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://obsidianterminal.blogspot.com/2019/07/dos-in-imgix-cdns-image-processing.htmlCVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
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