CVE-2019-16865: fedoraproject fedora
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2019-16865 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 3.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87.8% of scored vulnerabilities.
Severe, CVSS 7.5 (NVD); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 3% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 9 · Related 5Timeline
- 04-10-2019PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 05-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
An issue was discovered in Pillow before 6.2.0. When reading specially crafted invalid image files, the library can either allocate very large amounts of memory or take an extremely long period of time to process the image.
CVSS metrics
6 scores · 4 sources · 3 versions- OSV · PypiEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
3.13%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
88%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 3.13% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Debian1 product
- pillow< 6.2.0-1
Fedoraproject1 product
- fedoraEOL30 | 31
PyPI1 product
- pillow< 6.2.0
Python1 product
- pillow< 6.2.0
Ubuntu1 product
- pillow< 2.3.0-1ubuntu3.4+esm1 | < 3.1.2-0ubuntu1.3 | < 5.1.0-1ubuntu0.2
5 vendors · 5 products
References
26 links- pillow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/releasenotes/6.2.0.htmlX Refsource MISCRelease NotesVendor AdvisoryWEBREPORT
