01 Record

CVE-2016-6520

Buffer overflow in MagickCore/enhance.c in ImageMagick before 7.0.2-7 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors related to pixel cache morphology.

UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre

CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector

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02 Description

Buffer overflow in MagickCore/enhance.c in ImageMagick before 7.0.2-7 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors related to pixel cache morphology.

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation: Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision: Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability: 4.22% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile: Equal to or higher than the score of 90.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score: 9.1 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
NVD analysis status: Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity: Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published

2016-12-13 15:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 01:29Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-08-02

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

CWE-125Out-of-bounds ReadBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

089a2b2ba14c4965c7cf600bd8349586b80c76ff808554eaf3be7229c92e8130

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms

imagemagickimagemagickNot specified—

redhatenterprise_linuxNot specified—

redhatopenshiftNot specified—

06 References

www.securitytracker.com1036502http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036502vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160802 CVE Request ImageMagick buffer overflowhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/02/6mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
www.imagemagick.orghttp://www.imagemagick.org/script/changelog.phpx_refsource_CONFIRM
www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160802 Re: CVE Request ImageMagick buffer overflowhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/02/10mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
github.comhttps://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/76401e172ea3a55182be2b8e2aca4d07270f6da6x_refsource_CONFIRM