CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-25292
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-03-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1333
Description
An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.1.1. The PDF parser allows a regular expression DoS (ReDoS) attack via a crafted PDF file because of a catastrophic backtracking regex.
Affected configurations
• python pillow (< 8.1.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity weakness
References
- https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/8.1.1.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-33 Third Party Advisory
- https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/8.1.1.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-33 Third Party Advisory