Arbitrary Command Execution Affecting pillow package, versions [,2.5.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.29% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-PILLOW-40037
  • published 5 May 2014
  • disclosed 27 Apr 2014
  • credit Michael Brown

How to fix?

Upgrade to version 2.5.0 or greater.

Overview

Pillow is a Python Imaging Library (Fork).

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Pillow: metacharacter injection issue attacks. Python Image Library (PIL) 1.1.7 and earlier and Pillow 2.3 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in unspecified vectors related to CVE-2014-1932, possibly JpegImagePlugin.py.

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

5.6 medium