CVE-2022-22817

critical

Description

PIL.ImageMath.eval in Pillow before 9.0.0 allows evaluation of arbitrary expressions, such as ones that use the Python exec method. A lambda expression could also be used.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5053

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-10

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00018.html

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-25-203-04

https://github.com/JawadPy/CVE-Exploit-Collection

https://github.com/JawadPy/CVE-2022-22817

https://github.com/SaintsConnor/Exploits

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8vj2-vxx3-667w

https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/9.0.1.html#security

https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/9.0.0.html#restrict-builtins-available-to-imagemath-eval

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00021.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-01-10

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

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

Severity: Critical

CVSS v4

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N