Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') Affecting pillow package, versions [,10.0.0)
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.07% (30th
percentile)
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- published 3 Nov 2023
- disclosed 3 Nov 2023
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 3 Nov 2023
CVE-2023-44271 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade pillow to version 10.0.0 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') when the ImageFont truetype in an ImageDraw instance operates on a long text argument. An attacker can cause the service to crash by processing a task that uncontrollably allocates memory.
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