Critical
Security advisory
The gnuplot delegate functionality in ImageMagick before 6.9.4-0 and GraphicsMagick allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via unspecified vectors.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-5239
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:54 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The gnuplot delegate functionality in ImageMagick before 6.9.4-0 and GraphicsMagick allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via unspecified vectors.
osv:CVE-2016-5239
Complete source record
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