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CVE-2020-11538In libImaging/SgiRleDecode.c in Pillow through 7.0.0, a number of out-of-bounds reads exist in the parsing of SGI image files, a different…
- 8.1HighCVSS base score
- 2.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 15% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In libImaging/SgiRleDecode.c in Pillow through 7.0.0, a number of out-of-bounds reads exist in the parsing of SGI image files, a different issue than CVE-2020-5311.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 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 | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIpillowGHSA-43fq-w8qq-v88h (opens in a new tab)
References
References8
- https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/index.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/4538 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/7.1.0.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/4504 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-c52106e48a (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-d0737711b6 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- USN-4430-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-4430-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_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-2020-0133 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-43fq-w8qq-v88h (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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