CVE-2019-16865

HIGH

Pillow < 6.2.0 - Denial of Service via Crafted Invalid Image Files

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in Pillow before 6.2.0. When reading specially crafted invalid image files, the library can either allocate very large amounts of memory or take an extremely long period of time to process the image.

References (11)

Core 11
Core References
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/releasenotes/6.2.0.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4272-1/
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0566
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4631
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0580
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0578
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0681
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0683
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0694

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0394
EPSS Percentile 88.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-770
Status published
Products (4)
fedoraproject/fedora 30
fedoraproject/fedora 31
pypi/pillow 0 - 6.2.0PyPI
python/pillow < 6.2.0
Published Oct 04, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026