CVE-2016-7799

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

3.71% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 89.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

6.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Moderate. 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.

Published

2017-01-18 17:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 02:04Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-09-09

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
• CWE-122Heap-based Buffer OverflowVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

f4f16c1d95703a09f5781abcdf29d7534724fdcefb6fba8a0b2c5c1175709183

• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201611-21https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-21vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• www.securityfocus.com93264http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93264vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161001 imagemagick mogrify global buffer overflowhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/01/4mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161001 Re: imagemagick mogrify global buffer overflowhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/01/6mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• github.comhttps://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/280x_refsource_CONFIRM
• github.comhttps://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/a7bb158b7bedd1449a34432feb3a67c8f1873bfax_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.debian.orgDSA-3726http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3726vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN