CVE-2023-3428 | Imagemagick: heap-buffer-overflow in coders/tiff.c

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in coders/tiff.c in ImageMagick. This issue may allow a local attacker to trick the user into opening a specially crafted file, resulting in an application crash and denial of service.

Published: 2023-10-04 Last update: 2024-11-21 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2023-3428 is rated Low Risk (32.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.30%). Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2023-3428

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.04% 0.30% +0.26%
2 2025-03-30 0.05% 0.04% -0.02%
3 2025-03-29 — 0.05% —

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2023-3428

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.2 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 2.5 3.6 [email protected]
5.5 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 1.8 3.6 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2023-3428

OS Trackers for CVE-2023-3428

vendor priority summary link
alpine medium CVE-2023-3428: 1 source package rows (imagemagick); 17 state rows across 4 repos (3.18-community, 3.19-community, 3.20-community, edge-community); fixed 0, open 17. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-3428
debian not yet assigned CVE-2023-3428 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (imagemagick), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-3428
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3428
suse low CVE-2023-3428 severity low: SUSE including 76 source package names (GraphicsMagick, GraphicsMagick-devel, …), 267 product×package rows across 42 product lines (SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0, SUSE Enterprise Storage 7, … (42 product lines)): Known Not Affected 217, Fixed 50. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3428/
ubuntu medium CVE-2023-3428 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (imagemagick), 13 status rows across 13 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): released 8, not-affected 4, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-3428

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2023-3428

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
imagemagick imagemagick < 7.1.1-19 cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject extra_packages_for_enterprise_linux 8.0 cpe:2.3:a:fedoraproject:extra_packages_for_enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject fedora — cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2023-3428

URL Tags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3428 Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2218369 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
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