Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2016-0337 |
Date Published: | 30 Jun 2016 |
Severity: | Critical |
Last Updated: | Sunday 14 May, 2017 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2016-3714 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | Linux Web Servers |
Vulnerability Description | A remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in ImageMagick. The vulnerability is due to insufficient characters filtering. A remote attacker may exploit this issue by uploading a specially crafted file. Successful exploitation would allow attackers to execute arbitrary code in the security context of the target user. |
This protection detects attempts to exploit this vulnerability.
In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.
This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: Application Servers Protection Violation.
Attack Information: ImageMagick Insufficient Character Filtering Remote Code Execution