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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') Affecting pillow package, versions [,10.0.0)

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.06% (22nd percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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Red Hat
7.5 high
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SUSE
7.5 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-PILLOW-6043904
  • published 3 Nov 2023
  • disclosed 3 Nov 2023
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 3 Nov 2023

CVE-2023-44271 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-400 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade pillow to version 10.0.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') when the ImageFont truetype in an ImageDraw instance operates on a long text argument. An attacker can cause the service to crash by processing a task that uncontrollably allocates memory.