Infinite loop Affecting imagemagick package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-IMAGEMAGICK-10905668
  • published25 Jul 2025
  • disclosed23 Jul 2025
  • creditShinyoung Won, Woojin Jeon, WooJin Park, Lee DongHa, JungWoo Park, Juwon Chae, JaeHun Gou, Kyusang Han

Introduced: 23 Jul 2025

NewCVE-2025-53015  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Infinite loop in the GetXmpNumeratorAndDenominator function. An attacker can cause the application to hang indefinitely by providing specially crafted XMP profile data that triggers an unbounded loop during image processing.

Details

Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.

Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.

One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.

When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.

Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:

  • High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.

  • Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm ws package

CVSS Base Scores

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