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SCA: security update for pillow (GHSA-95q3-8gr9-gm8w)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 413057

Description

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

 - Pillow before 8.1.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) because the
 reported size of a contained image is not properly checked for an ICO container, and thus an attempted
 memory allocation can be very large. (CVE-2021-27923)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-95q3-8gr9-gm8w

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 413057

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 8/19/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.26

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-2021-27923

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: 3/18/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/3/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-27923