CVE-2016-3715 ImageMagick Arbitrary File Deletion

What is CVE-2016-3715?

CVE-2016-3715 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 5 May 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-552

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-3715?

It affects 30 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Imagemagick Imagemagick, Opensuse Leap, Opensuse Opensuse, Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris and 24 more.

How do I fix CVE-2016-3715?

Upgrade to a fixed version. US federal agencies must fix it by 3 May 2022.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2016-3715 being exploited?

Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2016-3715 in the wild since at least 3 Nov 2021.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-3715, GHSA-vmpp-w9w7-m326, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3715.