CVE-2016-3714: ImageMagick Improper Input Validation Vulnerability
- Is it exploited?
Yes. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 9 Sep 2024, 3,049 days after the CVE record was published.
- How likely is exploitation in the next 30 days?
- 97.5%
EPSS score, percentile 99.9 of all scored records
- How severe?
- 8.4 High
CVSS v3.1 base score, from CISA's enrichment of the record
- What should I do?
CISA deadline 30 Sep 2024. Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
- Which versions are affected?
Not stated. The CVE record gives vendor and product as “n/a” and the version as “unspecified”.
Source: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, 2026.10.28, as of 28 Oct 2026; FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS), v2026.06.15, as of 28 Oct 2026; CVE List V5 (CVE Program), cve_2026-10-28_0000Z, as of 28 Oct 2026. About the data.
What to do
Required action, set by CISA
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
CISA due date for this action: 30 September 2024.
Advisories and patches
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1266
- SUSE-SU-2016:1301
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1326
- USN-2990-1
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1261
- SUSE-SU-2016:1260
- DSA-3746
- GLSA-201611-21
- SUSE-SU-2016:1275
- SSA:2016-132-01
- DSA-3580
- RHSA-2016:0726
Linked from CISA's catalog entry
- https://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=29588#p132726
- https://imagemagick.org/archive/releases/
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3714
Affected products and versions
The CVE record does not name affected products or versions: vendor and product are “n/a” and the version is “unspecified”.
Source: CVE List V5 (CVE Program), cve_2026-10-28_0000Z, as of 28 Oct 2026. About the data.
About this vulnerability
ImageMagick contains an improper input validation vulnerability that affects the EPHEMERAL, HTTPS, MVG, MSL, TEXT, SHOW, WIN, and PLT coders. This allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in a crafted image.
Summary: CISA's KEV catalog, as of 28 Oct 2026.
- CISA added CVE-2016-3714 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on 9 Sep 2024.
- CISA's ransomware flag for this entry is "Unknown": no evidence of ransomware use in the catalog, which is not proof of none.
- The due date CISA sets for the required action is 30 Sep 2024.
- The CVE record was published on 5 May 2016, 3,049 days before it was added to KEV.
- The CVE record carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.4 (High), taken from CISA's enrichment of the record.
- FIRST's EPSS model puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 97.5% (percentile 99.9), as of 28 Oct 2026.
- CISA's SSVC assessment in the CVE record: exploitation active, automatable yes, technical impact total.
Source: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, 2026.10.28, as of 28 Oct 2026; CVE List V5 (CVE Program), cve_2026-10-28_0000Z, as of 28 Oct 2026; FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS), v2026.06.15, as of 28 Oct 2026. About the data.
Description
The (1) EPHEMERAL, (2) HTTPS, (3) MVG, (4) MSL, (5) TEXT, (6) SHOW, (7) WIN, and (8) PLT coders in ImageMagick before 6.9.3-10 and 7.x before 7.0.1-1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in a crafted image, aka "ImageTragick."
Source: CVE List V5 (CVE Program), cve_2026-10-28_0000Z, as of 28 Oct 2026. About the data.
Weakness
- CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
CWE and CAPEC are maintained by MITRE; the entries are those named in the CVE record and the KEV entry.
Timeline
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 5 May 2016 | CVE record published |
| 9 Sep 2024 | Added to CISA KEV |
| 30 Sep 2024 | CISA due date for the required action |
| 21 Oct 2025 | CVE record last updated |
References
18 more in the CVE record.
More exploited ImageMagick vulnerabilities
- CVE-2016-3715: ImageMagick Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability
- CVE-2016-3718: ImageMagick Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) Vulnerability