7.5

CVE-2023-44271: fedoraproject fedora

Modified
AliasesSUSE-SU-2023:4528-1SUSE-SU-2023:4630-1SUSE-SU-2023:4631-1
Published 03-11-2023Last modified 02-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-44271 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 1.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Prioritisesevere

Severe, CVSS 7.5 (NVD); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 1% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.35%
0%100%
Low · +0.22 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 6 · Related 3
DLA-3768-1DSA-5704-1MGASA-2024-0133OPENSUSE-SU-2026:11261-1RHSA-2024:1057USN-6618-1

Timeline

  1. 03-11-2023
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 02-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability 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

6 scores · 5 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.35%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

71%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

Increase +0.22 pp

From 1.13% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Redhat14 products
  • python-pillow< 0:5.1.1-20.el8 | < 0:2.0.0-24.gitd1c6db8.el7_9
  • python-pillow-debuginfo< 0:5.1.1-20.el8 | < 0:2.0.0-24.gitd1c6db8.el7_9
  • python-pillow-debugsource< 0:5.1.1-20.el8
  • python-pillow-devel< 0:2.0.0-24.gitd1c6db8.el7_9
  • python-pillow-doc< 0:2.0.0-24.gitd1c6db8.el7_9
Suse7 products
  • python-Pillow&distro=HPE Helion OpenStack 8< 4.2.1-3.23.2
  • python-Pillow&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Python 3 15 SP4< 9.5.0-150400.5.6.1
  • python-Pillow&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Python 3 15 SP5< 9.5.0-150400.5.6.1
  • python-Pillow&distro=SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8< 4.2.1-3.23.2
  • python-Pillow&distro=SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9< 5.2.0-3.20.1
Opensuse3 products
  • python-Pillow&distro=openSUSE Leap 15.4< 7.2.0-150300.3.3.1 | < 9.5.0-150400.5.6.1
  • python-Pillow&distro=openSUSE Leap 15.5< 7.2.0-150300.3.3.1 | < 9.5.0-150400.5.6.1
  • python-Pillow&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 10.0.1-2.1
Ubuntu2 products
  • pillow< 2.3.0-1ubuntu3.4+esm5 | < 3.1.2-0ubuntu1.6+esm3 | < 5.1.0-1ubuntu0.8+esm2 | < 7.0.0-4ubuntu0.8 | < 9.0.1-1ubuntu0.2
  • pillow-python2All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • pillow< 9.4.0-1.1+deb12u1 | < 10.0.0-1
Fedoraproject1 product
PyPI1 product
  • pillow< 1fe1bb49c452b0318cad12ea9d97c3bef188e9a7 | < 10.0.0
Python1 product

8 vendors · 30 products

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