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SCA: security update for pillow (GHSA-r73j-pqj5-w3x7)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 441110

Description

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

 - Pillow is a Python imaging library. From version 4.2.0 to before version 12.2.0, an attacker can supply a
 malicious PDF that causes the process to hang indefinitely, consuming 100% CPU and making the application
 unresponsive. This issue has been patched in version 12.2.0. (CVE-2026-42310)

Solution

Update the pillow library and its related packages to version 12.2.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r73j-pqj5-w3x7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 441110

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 5/5/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.72

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-42310

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Threat Score: 1.2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/4/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/4/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-42310

cwe: CWE-835