Vulnerabilities / CVE-2016-5239

critical

CVE-2016-5239

ImageMagick,GraphicsMagick: Gnuplot delegate vulnerability allowing command injection

Published Modified CWE 284
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat5.1AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Amazon (high), Oracle (high), Red Hat (medium), Ubuntu (medium).

Description

The gnuplot delegate functionality in ImageMagick before 6.9.4-0 and GraphicsMagick allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via unspecified vectors.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
amazon linux 1ImageMagick, ImageMagick-c++, ImageMagick-c++-devel and 4 more6.7.8.9-15.21.amzn1
debian 11graphicsmagick, imagemagick1.3.24-1 and 1 more
debian 12graphicsmagick, imagemagick1.3.24-1 and 1 more
debian 13graphicsmagick, imagemagick1.3.24-1 and 1 more
debian 14graphicsmagick, imagemagick1.3.24-1 and 1 more
debian 7graphicsmagick, imagemagick1.3.16-1.1+deb7u1 and 1 more
debian 8graphicsmagick, imagemagick1.3.20-3+deb8u4 and 1 more
echographicsmagick, imagemagick1.3.24-1 and 1 more
Oracle Linux 6ImageMagick, ImageMagick-c++, ImageMagick-c++-devel and 3 more6.7.2.7-5.el6_8
Oracle Linux 7ImageMagick, ImageMagick-c++, ImageMagick-c++-devel and 3 more6.7.8.9-15.el7_2
root.io debian 11rootio-imagemagick8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-2
root.io debian 12rootio-imagemagick8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-2
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SourcePackageFixed in
amazon linux 1ImageMagick6.7.8.9-15.21.amzn1
amazon linux 1ImageMagick-c++6.7.8.9-15.21.amzn1
amazon linux 1ImageMagick-c++-devel6.7.8.9-15.21.amzn1
amazon linux 1ImageMagick-debuginfo6.7.8.9-15.21.amzn1
amazon linux 1ImageMagick-devel6.7.8.9-15.21.amzn1
amazon linux 1ImageMagick-doc6.7.8.9-15.21.amzn1
amazon linux 1ImageMagick-perl6.7.8.9-15.21.amzn1
debian 11graphicsmagick1.3.24-1
debian 11imagemagick8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-2
debian 12graphicsmagick1.3.24-1
debian 12imagemagick8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-2
debian 13graphicsmagick1.3.24-1
debian 13imagemagick8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-2
debian 14graphicsmagick1.3.24-1
debian 14imagemagick8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-2
debian 7graphicsmagick1.3.16-1.1+deb7u1
debian 7imagemagick8:6.7.7.10-5+deb7u5
debian 8graphicsmagick1.3.20-3+deb8u4
debian 8imagemagick8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u2
echographicsmagick1.3.24-1
echoimagemagick8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-2
Oracle Linux 6ImageMagick6.7.2.7-5.el6_8
Oracle Linux 6ImageMagick-c++6.7.2.7-5.el6_8
Oracle Linux 6ImageMagick-c++-devel6.7.2.7-5.el6_8
Oracle Linux 6ImageMagick-devel6.7.2.7-5.el6_8
Oracle Linux 6ImageMagick-doc6.7.2.7-5.el6_8
Oracle Linux 6ImageMagick-perl6.7.2.7-5.el6_8
Oracle Linux 7ImageMagick6.7.8.9-15.el7_2
Oracle Linux 7ImageMagick-c++6.7.8.9-15.el7_2
Oracle Linux 7ImageMagick-c++-devel6.7.8.9-15.el7_2
Oracle Linux 7ImageMagick-devel6.7.8.9-15.el7_2
Oracle Linux 7ImageMagick-doc6.7.8.9-15.el7_2
Oracle Linux 7ImageMagick-perl6.7.8.9-15.el7_2
root.io debian 11rootio-imagemagick8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-2
root.io debian 12rootio-imagemagick8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-2
root.io debian 13rootio-imagemagick8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-2
ubuntu 12.04imagemagick8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.4
ubuntu 14.04graphicsmagick1.3.18-1ubuntu3.1
ubuntu 14.04imagemagick8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.1
ubuntu 14.04-ESMgraphicsmagick1.3.18-1ubuntu3.1
ubuntu 14.04-ESMimagemagick8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.1
ubuntu 16.04graphicsmagick1.3.23-1ubuntu0.1
ubuntu 16.04imagemagick8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMgraphicsmagick1.3.23-1ubuntu0.1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMimagemagick8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.1
ubuntu 16.10imagemagick8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu7
ubuntu 17.04imagemagick8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu7
ubuntu 17.10imagemagick8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu7
ubuntu 18.04imagemagick8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu7
ubuntu 18.04-ESMimagemagick8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu7
ubuntu 18.10imagemagick8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu7

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