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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in pillow

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 7, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 22, 2024

Package

pip pillow (pip)

Affected versions

>= 5.2.0, < 8.3.2

Patched versions

8.3.2

Description

The package pillow 5.2.0 and before 8.3.2 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the getrgb function.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 3, 2021
Reviewed Sep 7, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 7, 2021
Last updated Apr 22, 2024

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-23437

GHSA ID

GHSA-98vv-pw6r-q6q4

Source code

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