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Published Jul. 2, 2025

Security Vulnerability: Remote-Code-Execution (RCE) With ImageMagick

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Issue

Symptom: CVE-2016-3714 - Insufficient shell characters filtering leads to potentially remote-code-execution vulnerability in ImageMagick.

Environment

 ImageMagick before 6.9.3-10 and 7.x before 7.0.1-1 

Resolution

Liferay does not endorse or support any specific third-party technologies. While we are not able to make changes or fixes for issues arising from third-party technologies, the following is presented as an attempt to provide some possible workarounds.  Any implementation of these workarounds are at your own discretion. 

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