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CVE-2023-44271

An issue was discovered in Pillow before 10.0.0. It is a Denial of Service that uncontrollably allocates memory to proce

An issue was discovered in Pillow before 10.0.0. It is a Denial of Service that uncontrollably allocates memory to process a given task, potentially causing a service to crash by having it run out of memory. This occurs for truetype in ImageFont when textlength in an ImageDraw instance operates on a long text argument.

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 0.00236
Schedule remediation
  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
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Weakness Classification

CWE-770Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
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Affected Products & Versions

2
python pillow< 10.0.0
fedoraproject fedoraall versions
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Affected Packages

1
Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.
PyPI pillow HIGH fixed in 10.0.0
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Scoring & Timeline

7.5
HIGH · CVSS v3.1 · cve@mitre.org
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD03 Nov 2023 · 05:15 AM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Vendor Advisories

11
usnUSN-8135-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:13439-1
rhsaRHSA-2024:1057Important
usnUSN-6618-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2023:4630-1
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References & Sources

5
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
https://devhub.checkmarx.com/cve-details/CVE-2023-44271/Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/1fe1bb49c452b0318cad12ea9d97c3bef188e9a7Patch
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/7244Patch
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00021.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N2JOEDUJDQLCUII2LQYZYSM7RJL2I3P4/Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
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