Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-10177

medium Nessus Plugin ID 222988

Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

- Pillow before 7.1.0 has multiple out-of-bounds reads in libImaging/FliDecode.c. (CVE-2020-10177)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-10177

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-10177

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 222988

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2020_10177.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/4/2025

Updated: 9/2/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-10177

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-pillow-tk, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pillow-sane, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pillow, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-pillow-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-pillow-devel, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-pillow-doc, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-pillow, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-pillow-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pillow-qt, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pillow-python2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-pillow-tk, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-pillow-qt, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pillow-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-pillow-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-pillow-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pillow-tk, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-pillow, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-pillow-tk, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pillow-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-pillow, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-pillow-sane

Required KB Items: Host/OS/identifier, Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/25/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-10177