A vulnerability with a widely deployed image processing library was disclosed on the 5th of May 2016. Within an hour of the disclosure.
AppCheck was updated to detect the flaw.
From the original advisory:
“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.”
Full details of the flaw can be found at https://imagetragick.com/
No software to download or install.
Contact us or call us 0113 887 8380
AppCheck is a software security vendor based in the UK, offering a leading security scanning platform that automates the discovery of security flaws within organisations websites, applications, network and cloud infrastructure. AppCheck are authorized by te Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program aas a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)