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Vulnerability details: VCID-xqwp-74p6-skdy
Vulnerability ID VCID-xqwp-74p6-skdy
Aliases CVE-2018-6405
Summary In the ReadDCMImage function in coders/dcm.c in ImageMagick before 7.0.7-23, each redmap, greenmap, and bluemap variable can be overwritten by a new pointer. The previous pointer is lost, which leads to a memory leak. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 5.9
Risk 3.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime
System Score Found at
cvssv3 3.3 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-6405.json
epss 0.00757 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-6405
epss 0.00757 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-6405
epss 0.00757 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-6405
epss 0.00757 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-6405
epss 0.00757 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-6405
epss 0.00757 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-6405
epss 0.00757 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-6405
epss 0.00757 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-6405
epss 0.00757 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-6405
epss 0.00757 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-6405
epss 0.00757 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-6405
epss 0.00757 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-6405
epss 0.00757 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-6405
epss 0.00757 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-6405
epss 0.00757 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-6405
epss 0.00757 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-6405
cvssv3 4.3 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 4.3 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6405
cvssv3.1 6.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6405
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-6405.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-6405
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6405
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/964
1541866 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1541866
cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
CVE-2018-6405 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6405
USN-3681-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-6405.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6405
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6405
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.72305
EPSS Score 0.00757
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:36:51.719455+00:00 Alpine Linux Importer Import https://secdb.alpinelinux.org/v3.7/community.json 37.0.0