CVE-2023-44271

HIGH 7.5

At a glance

Source: NVD
EPSS: EPSS 1.35 % · percentile 71 (2026-10-31)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2023-11-03 00:00 UTC
Updated: 2024-08-02 19:59 UTC
Assigner: mitre
NVD status: Modified

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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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Advisories

GHSA-8ghj-p4vj-mr35 — Pillow Denial of Service vulnerability
PYSEC-2023-227 — 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 s

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2023-0199
GCVE · GCVE-0-2023-44271

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:python:pillow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 10.0.0
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:38:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
	affected n/a

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD

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