CVE-2023-44271

Aliases:GHSA-8ghj-p4vj-mr35BIT-pillow-2023-44271PYSEC-2023-227
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 15
Modified
Published: 03 Nov 2023, 00:00
Last modified:02 Aug 2024, 19:59

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.24% LOW
0% probability +0.09%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

03 Nov 2023, 00:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
02 Aug 2024, 19:59
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

An issue was discovered in Pillow before 10.0.0. It is a Denial of Service that uncontrollably allocates memory to process a given task, potentially causing a service to crash by having it run out of memory. This occurs for truetype in ImageFont when textlength in an ImageDraw instance operates on a long text argument.

CVSS Metrics

  • v4.0•HIGH•Score: 8.7CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.24%• Percentile: 47%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-770•Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

    The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any intended restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated.

Affected Systems

  • fedoraproject•fedora

    38

  • PyPI•pillow

    < 1fe1bb49c452b0318cad12ea9d97c3bef188e9a7 | < 10.0.0

  • python•pillow

    < 10.0.0

References (10)