#VU69499 Resource exhaustion in Pillow - CVE-2022-45199
Published: November 22, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU69499
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-45199
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Pillow
Pillow
Software vendor:
Alex Clark and Contributors
Alex Clark and Contributors
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the TiffImagePlugin.py when setting up the context for image decoding. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion via a large value in the SAMPLESPERPIXEL tag and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.