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CVE-2016-3715 — ImageMagick Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability

provenance: imported · CVE: CVE-2016-3715 · CWE: CWE-284

CVE-2016-3715: ImageMagick Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Vendor / project ImageMagick
Product ImageMagick
Date added 2021-11-03
Due date 2022-05-03
Ransomware campaign use Unknown

Description

ImageMagick contains an unspecified vulnerability that could allow users to delete files by using ImageMagick's 'ephemeral' pseudo protocol, which deletes files after reading.

Required action (CISA)

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Notes

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3715

Weakness behind it

CISA records this vulnerability as an instance of CWE-284. From there the chain continues into CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques, all inside this corpus.

References

  • NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3715
  • KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog

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