Denial of service in ImageMagick

1) Resource management error

EUVDB-ID: #VU74300

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-1289

CWE-ID: CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application when parsing SVG files. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted SVG file that contains many render actions and consume all available disk space on the system.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

ImageMagick: 6.9.11-0 - 7.1.0.43

External links

http://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/c5b23cbf2119540725e6dc81f4deb25798ead6a4
http://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-j96m-mjp6-99xr
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2176858

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.