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SCA: security update for pillow (GHSA-j7mj-748x-7p78)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422675

Description

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

 - An issue was discovered in Pillow before 6.2.0. When reading specially crafted invalid image files, the
 library can either allocate very large amounts of memory or take an extremely long period of time to
 process the image. (CVE-2019-16865)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j7mj-748x-7p78

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422675

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-16865

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/22/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/4/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16865

cwe: CWE-770