CVE-2016-3715
Exploitation confirmed. First attested on 2021-11-03 by CISA-ADP, CISA KEV, GCVE · kevintel.
- Published2016-05-05
- WeaknessCWE-552
Am I affected?
Debian, Ubuntu or Red Hat sometimes backport a fix without changing the upstream version number: such a version reads « to verify », never « affected ».With a domain, we read the version its public headers and pages expose. A distribution build can carry the fix under an older number.
Description
The EPHEMERAL coder in ImageMagick before 6.9.3-10 and 7.x before 7.0.1-1 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via a crafted image.
Timeline
dates in UTCObserved activity
isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-10-23 18:48 UTCBlock these indicators
- Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2016-3715?format=txt
- CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2016-3715?format=csv
- TAXII collection of exploited CVEs
- The EDL and CSV take an API key on the Pro plan.
Versions per branch
NVD| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.7 | = 6.7 | no fix published | NVD |
| 7.2 | = 7.2 | no fix published | NVD |
| 7.3 | = 7.3 | no fix published | NVD |
| 7.4 | = 7.4 | no fix published | NVD |
| 7.5 | = 7.5 | no fix published | NVD |
| 7.6 | = 7.6 | no fix published | NVD |
| 7.7 | = 7.7 | no fix published | NVD |
| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.7 | = 6.7_s390x | no fix published | NVD |
| 7.2 | = 7.2_s390x | no fix published | NVD |
| 7.3 | = 7.3_s390x | no fix published | NVD |
| 7.4 | = 7.4_s390x | no fix published | NVD |
| 7.5 | = 7.5_s390x | no fix published | NVD |
| 7.6 | = 7.6_s390x | no fix published | NVD |
| 7.7 | = 7.7_s390x | no fix published | NVD |
| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.7 | = 6.7_ppc64 | no fix published | NVD |
| 7.2 | = 7.2_ppc64 | no fix published | NVD |
| 7.3 | = 7.3_ppc64 | no fix published | NVD |
| 7.4 | = 7.4_ppc64 | no fix published | NVD |
| 7.5 | = 7.5_ppc64 | no fix published | NVD |
| 7.6 | = 7.6_ppc64 | no fix published | NVD |
| 7.7 | = 7.7_ppc64 | no fix published | NVD |
27 more products in the sources.
as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.
Fix
- CISA’s required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.due 2022-05-03
Advisories and patches
- git.imagemagick.orgPatch
- www.imagemagick.orgVendor Advisory
- www.imagemagick.orgRelease Notes
Detection
- Nuclei template
- none so far ProjectDiscovery
- Exploit-DB
- no entry Exploit-DB
- Proof-of-concept repositories
- none listed PoC-in-GitHub
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
- Date Added
- 2021-11-03
- Patch Due Date
- 2022-05-03
- Ransomware Use
- Unknown
- Required Action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Sources
Technical details
- CVSS v3 Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Published
- 2016-05-05
- Last Modified
- 2026-06-17
- NVD status
- Analyzed
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