Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting pillow package, versions [,9.0.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.39% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PILLOW-2331901
  • published9 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Jan 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Jan 2022

CVE-2022-22817  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Pillow to version 9.0.0 or higher.

Overview

Pillow is a PIL (Python Imaging Library) fork.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution via PIL.ImageMath.eval which allows evaluation of arbitrary expressions, such as ones that use the Python exec method.

CVSS Scores

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