CVE-2021-27921

high

Description

Pillow before 8.1.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) because the reported size of a contained image is not properly checked for a BLP container, and thus an attempted memory allocation can be very large.

References

https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/8.1.1.html

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/TQQY6472RX4J2SUJENWDZAWKTJJGP2ML/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ZTSY25UJU7NJUFHH3HWT575LT4TDFWBZ/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/S7G44Z33J4BNI2DPDROHWGVG2U7ZH5JU/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-33

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2021-03-03

Updated: 2022-07-12

Type: CWE-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: HIGH