CVE-2021-25292 Affecting pillow package, versions <8.1.1-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-PILLOW-1082835
  • published4 Mar 2021
  • disclosed19 Mar 2021

Introduced: 4 Mar 2021

CVE-2021-25292  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable pillow to version 8.1.1-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pillow package and not the pillow package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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