Input validation error in ImageMagick - CVE-2019-18853
Published: November 11, 2019 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU30628
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-18853
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
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.
Affected software
ImageMagick
How to mitigate CVE-2019-18853
Install update from vendor's website.
ImageMagick - update to 7.0.9-0