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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting pillow package, versions [,6.2.0)

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 1.49% (87th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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Red Hat
7.5 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-PILLOW-536096
  • published 26 Nov 2019
  • disclosed 4 Oct 2019
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 4 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-16865 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-770 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Pillow to version 6.2.0 or higher.

Overview

Pillow is a PIL (Python Imaging Library) fork.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. 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.

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