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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2017-11448

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

The ReadJPEGImage function in coders/jpeg.c in ImageMagick before 7.0.6-1 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized memory locations via a crafted file.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published