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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.39% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-PILLOW-2331901
  • published 9 Jan 2022
  • disclosed 9 Jan 2022
  • credit Unknown

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

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
9.8 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

9.8 critical
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Red Hat

9.8 critical