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


0.0
critical

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.2% (58th percentile)
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NVD
9.8 critical
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Red Hat
5.6 medium

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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.