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SCA: security update for Pillow (GHSA-hjfx-8p6c-g7gx)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 415807

Description

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

 - An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.2.0. For BLP data, BlpImagePlugin did not properly check that
 reads (after jumping to file offsets) returned data. This could lead to a DoS where the decoder could be
 run a large number of times on empty data. (CVE-2021-28678)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hjfx-8p6c-g7gx

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 415807

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.26

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-28678

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Threat Score: 4.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/8/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/2/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-28678

cwe: CWE-345