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SCA: security update for pillow (GHSA-57h3-9rgr-c24m)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 410658

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.1.1. TiffDecode has a heap-based buffer overflow when decoding
 crafted YCbCr files because of certain interpretation conflicts with LibTIFF in RGBA mode. NOTE: this
 issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-35654. (CVE-2021-25289)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-57h3-9rgr-c24m

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 410658

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-25289

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/29/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/6/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-25289

cwe: CWE-787