GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-8ghj-p4vj-mr35 Pillow Denial of Service vulnerability

HIGH Published 2023-11-03 Modified 2024-10-14 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2023-44271
Ecosystem
PyPI
Packages
pillow
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-770
Reviewed
2023-11-03

Affected packages

• PyPI pillow: < 10.0.0 → fixed in 10.0.0

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.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2023-44271 An issue was discovered in Pillow before 10.0.0. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References