Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting pillow package, versions <6.2.0-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.13% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ECHOLATEST-PILLOW-17982250
  • published15 Jul 2026
  • disclosed4 Oct 2019

Introduced: 4 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-16865  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Echo:latest pillow to version 6.2.0-1 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 Echo. See How to fix? for Echo:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Pillow before 6.2.0. When reading specially crafted invalid image files, the library can either allocate very large amounts of memory or take an extremely long period of time to process the image.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1