CVE-2016-3714

CRITICALNVD 8.49.0▲
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2024-09-09), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 8.4 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: cisa_kev, epss, ghsa, nvd
Trending — 5 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild
9.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV)
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 97%CVSS: 8.4Exploit: cisa kev · ssvc active · Metasploit · Exploit-DB (verified) · epss top5pct · epss high · public exploitExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

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."

CVSS v3
8.4
EG Score
9.0(high)
EG Risk
96(Act)
EG Risk 96/100SSVC: Act

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity90% × 45%
Exploitation100% × 40%
Automatability100% × 15%
Action: Fix now — active exploitation, automatable, high impact.
EPSS PROB
97%
EPSS %ILE
100%
KEV
⚠ Exploited

Published

May 5, 2016

Last Modified

June 17, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated May 4, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

[SECURITY] [DSA 3580-1] imagemagick security update

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3580
generic
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0726.html
generic

Packet Storm

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152364/ImageTragick-ImageMagick-Proof-Of-Concepts.html

Patch Availability(2)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntuperlmagick (8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.1) @ xenial2026-09-25ubuntu
redhatImageMagick-0:6.7.8.9-13.el7_22016-05-09redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(12 across 6 ecosystems)
Debian:11(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
graphicsmagick—1.3.24-1—
imagemagick—8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-2—
Debian:12(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
graphicsmagick—1.3.24-1—
imagemagick—8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-2—
Debian:13(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
graphicsmagick—1.3.24-1—
imagemagick—8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-2—
Debian:14(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
graphicsmagick—1.3.24-1—
imagemagick—8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-2—
Debian:7(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
graphicsmagick1.3.16-1.11.3.16-1.1+deb7u1—
imagemagick8:6.7.7.10-5, 8:6.7.7.10-5+deb7u2, 8:6.7.7.10-5+deb7u3, 8:6.7.7.10-5+deb7u48:6.7.7.10-5+deb7u5—
Debian:8(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
graphicsmagick1.3.20-3+deb8u11.3.20-3+deb8u2—
imagemagick8:6.8.9.9-5, 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u18:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u2—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

(2)

Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 91× in last 7d / 382× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 1,468 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-09-25 10:50 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-09-25 10:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-09-25 06:45 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-09-25 06:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-09-25 02:40 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-09-25 02:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-09-24 22:35 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-09-24 22:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-09-24 19:31 UTCCISA KEV update
  10. 2026-09-24 18:30 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-09-24 18:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-09-24 14:25 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-09-24 14:25 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-09-24 14:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-09-24 13:59 UTCEPSS rescore
  16. 2026-09-24 10:20 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-09-24 10:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-09-24 06:15 UTCVendor advisory
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  20. 2026-09-24 02:10 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-09-24 02:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-09-23 22:06 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-09-23 22:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-09-23 18:01 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-09-23 18:01 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  1. 2026-09-23 13:56 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-09-23 13:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-09-23 09:52 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-09-23 09:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-09-23 05:47 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-09-23 05:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-09-23 01:43 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-09-23 01:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-09-22 21:38 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-09-22 21:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-09-22 19:36 UTCCISA KEV update
  12. 2026-09-22 17:33 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-09-22 17:33 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-09-22 17:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-09-22 13:26 UTCVendor advisory
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  19. 2026-09-22 05:14 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-09-22 05:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-09-22 01:09 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-09-22 01:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-09-21 21:04 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-09-21 21:04 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-09-21 21:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
  26. 2026-09-21 19:09 UTCCISA KEV update
  27. 2026-09-21 16:59 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-09-21 16:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
  29. 2026-09-21 12:54 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-09-21 12:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
  31. 2026-09-21 08:49 UTCVendor advisory
  32. 2026-09-21 08:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
  33. 2026-09-21 04:44 UTCVendor advisory
  34. 2026-09-21 04:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
  35. 2026-09-21 00:36 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-09-21 00:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  37. 2026-09-20 20:31 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-09-20 20:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  39. 2026-09-20 16:26 UTCVendor advisory
  40. 2026-09-20 16:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  41. 2026-09-20 12:22 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-09-20 12:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  43. 2026-09-20 08:13 UTCVendor advisory
  44. 2026-09-20 08:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  45. 2026-09-20 04:08 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-09-20 04:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  47. 2026-09-20 00:03 UTCVendor advisory
  48. 2026-09-20 00:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
  49. 2026-09-19 19:58 UTCVendor advisory
  50. 2026-09-19 19:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  51. 2026-09-19 15:53 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-09-19 15:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  53. 2026-09-19 11:46 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-09-19 11:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  55. 2026-09-19 07:42 UTCVendor advisory
  56. 2026-09-19 07:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
  57. 2026-09-19 03:36 UTCVendor advisory
  58. 2026-09-19 03:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  59. 2026-09-18 23:31 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-09-18 23:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  61. 2026-09-18 19:25 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-09-18 19:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  63. 2026-09-18 19:20 UTCCISA KEV update
  64. 2026-09-18 15:20 UTCVendor advisory
  65. 2026-09-18 15:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  66. 2026-09-18 14:15 UTCCISA KEV update
  67. 2026-09-18 11:15 UTCVendor advisory
  68. 2026-09-18 11:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
  69. 2026-09-18 07:10 UTCVendor advisory
  70. 2026-09-18 07:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
  71. 2026-09-18 03:05 UTCVendor advisory
  72. 2026-09-18 03:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  73. 2026-09-17 22:59 UTCVendor advisory
  74. 2026-09-17 22:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
  75. 2026-09-17 18:54 UTCVendor advisory

Publicly available exploits

(5 references)

Working exploit code is in the public domain (1 Metasploit module) (2 GitHub PoCs) (2 Exploit-DB entries). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.

  • Exploit-DBEDB-39791✓ verified
    First seen May 9, 2016

    ImageMagick 6.9.3-9 / 7.0.1-0 - 'ImageTragick' Delegate Arbitrary Command Execution (Metasploit)

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCHood3dRob1n/CVE-2016-3714
    First seen May 7, 2016

    ImaegMagick Code Execution (CVE-2016-3714)

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCjpeanut/ImageTragick-CVE-2016-3714-RShell
    First seen May 5, 2016
    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-39767
    First seen May 4, 2016

    ImageMagick 7.0.1-0 / 6.9.3-9 - 'ImageTragick ' Multiple Vulnerabilities

    Open source ↗
  • Metasploitexploit/unix/fileformat/imagemagick_delegate✓ verified
    First seen May 3, 2016

    ImageMagick Delegate Arbitrary Command Execution

    Open source ↗

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Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2016-3714?
CVE-2016-3714 is a critical vulnerability published on May 5, 2016. 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."
When was CVE-2016-3714 disclosed?
CVE-2016-3714 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on May 5, 2016, with the most recent update on June 17, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2016-3714 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2016-3714 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on September 9, 2024, affecting ImageMagick ImageMagick. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate patching attention.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2016-3714?
CVE-2016-3714 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.4 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.0.
Which products are affected by CVE-2016-3714?
CVE-2016-3714 affects ImageMagick ImageMagick. The full affected-products list, including version ranges and fixed versions, is shown in the Affected Packages section of this page.
How do I remediate CVE-2016-3714?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2016-3714, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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