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SCA: security update for Pillow (GHSA-9hx2-hgq2-2g4f)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 413310

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. The PDF parser allows a regular expression DoS (ReDoS)
 attack via a crafted PDF file because of a catastrophic backtracking regex. (CVE-2021-25292)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9hx2-hgq2-2g4f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 413310

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: 23.18

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-2021-25292

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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: 6.9

Threat Score: 4.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/29/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/6/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-25292

cwe: CWE-400