VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2023-44271
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.
HIGH 7.5EPSS 1.13%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.13%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.13% probability · 65th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-770
- Affected
- python/pillow · fedoraproject/fedora
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- 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 List, Third Party Advisory
- 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 List, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.