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CVE-2021-25292

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in Pillow

Description

An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.1.1. The PDF parser allows a regular expression DoS (ReDoS) attack via a crafted PDF file because of a catastrophic backtracking regex.
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Vulnerability Details
Score
6.4
Score Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected Versions
pillow >= 5.1.0 < 8.1.1
Severity
Medium
Medium
Medium
Ecosystem
Python
Publish Date
March 29, 2021
Modified Date
October 9, 2024