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ImageMagick Is On Fire -- CVE-2016-3714
From: Ryan Huber <rhuber () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 10:59:12 -0700
There are multiple vulnerabilities in ImageMagick, a package commonly used by web services to process images. One of the vulnerabilities can lead to remote code execution (RCE) if you process user submitted images. The exploit for this vulnerability is being used in the wild. A number of image processing plugins depend on the ImageMagick library, including, but not limited to, PHP's imagick, Ruby's rmagick and paperclip, and nodejs's imagemagick. If you use ImageMagick or an affected library, we recommend you mitigate the known vulnerabilities by doing at least one these two things (but preferably both!): 1. Verify that all image files begin with the expected "magic bytes" corresponding to the image file types you support before sending them to ImageMagick for processing. (see FAQ for more info) 2. Use a policy file to disable the vulnerable ImageMagick coders. The global policy for ImageMagick is usually found in "/etc/ImageMagick". This policy.xml example will disable the coders EPHEMERAL, URL, MVG, and MSL. Github Gist showing an example policy file: https://gist.github.com/rawdigits/d73312d21c8584590783a5e07e124723 FAQ Who found this bug? Stewie (https://hackerone.com/stewie) found the initial bug, and Nikolay Ermishkin (https://twitter.com/__sl1m) from the Mail.Ru Security Team found additional issues, including the RCE. Will you share the exploit with me? No. We would like to give people a chance to patch before it is more widely available. The exploit is trivial, so we expect it to be available within hours of this post. Updates and PoC will eventually be available here. Are patches available? Yes, but they appear to be incomplete. Everyone would have preferred to wait for patches before disclosing, but working exploits are readily available. What are "magic bytes"? The first few bytes of a file can often used to identify the type of file. Some examples are GIF images, which start with the hex bytes "47 49 46 38", and JPEG images, which start with "FF D8". This list on Wikipedia has the magic bytes for most common file types. Why are you disclosing a vulnerability like this? We have collectively determined that these vulnerabilities are available to individuals other than the person(s) who discovered them. An unknowable number of people having access to these vulnerabilities makes this a critical issue for everyone using this software. ImageMagick also disclosed this on their forum a few hours ago. How well-tested are these mitigations? They are effective against all of the exploit samples we've seen, but we cannot guarantee they will eliminate all vectors of attack. Are there other ways to mitigate? Sandboxing ImageMagick is worth investigating, but we are not providing specific instructions for doing this. What else should I know? We did not find this vulnerability ourselves. We understand the mechanisms involved, but credit for finding this vulnerability should go to the researcher(s). Vulnerabilities need names! What is its name??!? If you must, we've been calling it "ImageTragick". How can I contact you? imagetragick () gmail com -- Ryan Huber rhuber () gmail com @ryanhuber https://github.com/rawdigits +1 (312) 380 6136
Current thread:
- ImageMagick Is On Fire -- CVE-2016-3714 Ryan Huber (May 03)
- Re: ImageMagick Is On Fire -- CVE-2016-3714 Solar Designer (May 03)
- Re: ImageMagick Is On Fire -- CVE-2016-3714 Karim Valiev (May 03)
- Re: ImageMagick Is On Fire -- CVE-2016-3714 Seth Arnold (May 03)
- Re: ImageMagick Is On Fire -- CVE-2016-3714 Tim (May 03)
- Re: ImageMagick Is On Fire -- CVE-2016-3714 Brandon Dees (May 03)
- Re: ImageMagick Is On Fire -- CVE-2016-3714 Seth Arnold (May 03)
- Re: ImageMagick Is On Fire -- CVE-2016-3714 Bob Friesenhahn (May 03)
- Re: ImageMagick Is On Fire -- CVE-2016-3714 Seth Arnold (May 03)
- Re: ImageMagick Is On Fire -- CVE-2016-3714 Karim Valiev (May 03)
- Re: ImageMagick Is On Fire -- CVE-2016-3714 Solar Designer (May 03)
- Re: ImageMagick Is On Fire -- CVE-2016-3714 Bob Friesenhahn (May 19)
- Re: ImageMagick Is On Fire -- CVE-2016-3714 Jeremy Stanley (May 19)