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CVE-2021-28677: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Pillow

June 8, 2021 (updated October 14, 2024)

An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.2.0. For EPS data, the readline implementation used in EPSImageFile has to deal with any combination of \r and \n as line endings. It used an accidentally quadratic method of accumulating lines while looking for a line ending. A malicious EPS file could use this to perform a DoS of Pillow in the open phase, before an image was accepted for opening.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-q5hq-fp76-qmrc
  • github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pillow/PYSEC-2021-93.yaml
  • github.com/python-pillow/Pillow
  • github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/5a5e6db0abf4e7a638fb1b3408c4e495a096cb92
  • github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/5377
  • lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00018.html
  • lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MQHA5HAIBOYI3R6HDWCLAGFTIQP767FL
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28677
  • pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/8.2.0.html
  • security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-33

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Affected versions

All versions before 8.2.0

Fixed versions

  • 8.2.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 8.2.0 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Source file

pypi/Pillow/CVE-2021-28677.yml

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