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CVE-2019-18853

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-11-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-674

Description

ImageMagick before 7.0.9-0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service because XML_PARSE_HUGE is not properly restricted in coders/svg.c, related to SVG and libxml2.

Affected products

• ImageMagick: from 7.0.0-0 before 7.0.9-0 — fixed in 7.0.9-0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ImageMagick 7.0.9-0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-19-136
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/ec9c8944af2bfc65c697ca44f93a727a99b405f1
• https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-19-136
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/ec9c8944af2bfc65c697ca44f93a727a99b405f1

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