Inside ImageTragick: The Real Payloads Being Used to Hack Websites
May 9, 2016John Graham-Cumming
Summary
This post details the discovery and analysis of the ImageTragick vulnerability (CVE-2016-3714) in ImageMagick, which allows for arbitrary code execution. It describes how Cloudflare quickly deployed a WAF rule to protect customers and analyzes the common payloads used by attackers for reconnaissance and remote access. The post emphasizes the importance of upgrading ImageMagick to patch the vulnerability.
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