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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…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 4.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.7% · top 8.2% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIpillowGHSA-h5rf-vgqx-wjv2 (opens in a new tab)
References
7
- openSUSE-SU-2015:0798 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jan/02/pillow-security-release/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-0667 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://pillow.readthedocs.org/releasenotes/2.7.0.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 77758 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/1060 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-0031 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-h5rf-vgqx-wjv2 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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