Vulnerability identifier: #VU69499
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID:
CWE-ID:
CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Network
Exploit availability: No
Vulnerable software:
Pillow
Universal components / Libraries /
Libraries used by multiple products
Vendor: 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.
Mitigation
Install updates from vendor's website.
Vulnerable software versions
Pillow: 9.2.0
External links
http://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/6700
http://bugs.gentoo.org/878769
http://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/releases/tag/9.3.0
http://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/2444cddab2f83f28687c7c20871574acbb6dbcf3
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.