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SCA: security update for pillow (GHSA-h5rf-vgqx-wjv2)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434240

Description

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

 - Pillow before 2.7.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a compressed text chunk in a
 PNG image that has a large size when it is decompressed. (CVE-2014-9601)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h5rf-vgqx-wjv2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 434240

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

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-2014-9601

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: 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: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/12/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9601

BID: 77758

cwe: CWE-20