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CVE-2021-28678An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.2.0. For BLP data, BlpImagePlugin did not properly check that reads (after jumping to file…
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.73%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 45% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.2.0. For BLP data, BlpImagePlugin did not properly check that reads (after jumping to file offsets) returned data. This could lead to a DoS where the decoder could be run a large number of times on empty data.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 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 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.73% · top 45% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIPillowGHSA-hjfx-8p6c-g7gx (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/8.2.0.html#cve-2021-28678-fix-blp-dos (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/5377 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- FEDORA-2021-77756994ba (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- GLSA-202107-33 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_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-2021-0185 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-hjfx-8p6c-g7gx (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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