🛡️ GHSA-4fx9-vc88-q2xc — pillow

🟢 CVSS 2.0 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-400 OSV
2.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Infinite loop in Pillow

JpegImagePlugin may append an EOF marker to the end of a truncated file, so that the last segment of the data will still be processed by the decoder.

If the EOF marker is not detected as such however, this could lead to an infinite loop where JpegImagePlugin keeps trying to end the file.

Weakness class

GHSA-4fx9-vc88-q2xc is classified as CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. A request can consume memory, CPU or storage without limit, exhausting capacity for everyone else.

Affected software

GHSA-4fx9-vc88-q2xc is recorded against 1 package.

  • pillow (fixed in 9.0.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 11 March 2022 and last revised on 5 December 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
pillow.readthedocs.io (Web)

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE CWE-400
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-03-11
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-12-05
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
pillow — 9.0.0

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