VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2014-9601
Pillow before 2.7.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a compressed text chunk in a PNG image that has a large size when it is decompressed.
MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 4.57%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (4.57%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Pillow before 2.7.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a compressed text chunk in a PNG image that has a large size when it is decompressed.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 4.57% probability · 92th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-20
- Affected
- python/pillow · oracle/solaris · fedoraproject/fedora · opensuse/opensuse
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 4.6% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148442.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00056.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://pillow.readthedocs.org/releasenotes/2.7.0.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77758
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/1060Vendor Advisory
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jan/02/pillow-security-release/Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148442.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00056.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://pillow.readthedocs.org/releasenotes/2.7.0.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77758
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/1060Vendor Advisory
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jan/02/pillow-security-release/Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.