Denial of Service Vulnerability in Pillow by Python
CVE-2021-28678

5.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Python

Status
Pillow
Vendor
CVE Published:
2 June 2021

What is CVE-2021-28678?

A vulnerability was identified in Pillow prior to version 8.2.0, where the BlpImagePlugin failed to adequately validate that data reads from specified file offsets returned valid content. This oversight could enable an attacker to exploit the decoder by executing it repeatedly on empty data, potentially resulting in a service disruption.

References

https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/8.2....
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https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/5377
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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-ann...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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CVE-2021-28678 : Denial of Service Vulnerability in Pillow by Python