Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') Affecting pillow package, versions [,10.0.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PILLOW-6043904
  • published3 Nov 2023
  • disclosed3 Nov 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Nov 2023

CVE-2023-44271  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How 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.

CVSS Scores

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