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High severity · published Mar 3, 2021
CVE-2021-27922
Pillow before 8.1.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) because the reported size of a contained image is not properly checked for an ICNS…
7.5
CVSS
4.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Pillow before 8.1.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) because the reported size of a contained image is not properly checked for an ICNS container, and thus an attempted memory allocation can be very large.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.9% · higher than 92% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
32; 33; 34 · source: NVD
PI
Pillow · Python
before 8.1.1 · source: NVD
Affected product
FE
Fedora
Fedoraproject
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-27922
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-27922
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/S7G44Z33J4BNI2DPDROHWGVG2U7ZH5JU/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TQQY6472RX4J2SUJENWDZAWKTJJGP2ML/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZTSY25UJU7NJUFHH3HWT575LT4TDFWBZ/
pillow.readthedocs.io
https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/8.1.2.html
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-33
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/S7G44Z33J4BNI2DPDROHWGVG2U7ZH5JU/
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