CVE-2023-44271
HIGHPython Pillow < 10.0.0 - Resource Allocation Without Limits
Title source: ruleDescription
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.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Third Party Advisory
https://devhub.checkmarx.com/cve-details/CVE-2023-44271/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N2JOEDUJDQLCUII2LQYZYSM7RJL2I3P4/
Mailing List mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00021.html
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0022
EPSS Percentile
44.1%
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 (3)
fedoraproject/fedora
38
pypi/pillow
0 - 10.0.0PyPI
python/pillow
< 10.0.0
Published
Nov 03, 2023
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026