ImageMagick Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability

Added to KEV
2021-11-03
Federal due date
2022-05-03
Vendor
ImageMagick
Product
ImageMagick
EPSS
99.6th percentile (score 0.893, as of 2026-06-08)
NVD CVSS v3.1
Ransomware use
Unknown
Upstream
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3715

CISA short description

ImageMagick contains an unspecified vulnerability that could allow users to delete files by using ImageMagick's 'ephemeral' pseudo protocol, which deletes files after reading.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

EPSS percentile is the FIRST.org exploit-probability ranking as of the date noted above; it moves daily. CVSS reflects NVD's analysis at time of publication.