CVE-2021-23437

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Published 2021-09-07 · Modified 2023-12-06
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
VIR risk
2.5

Description

The package pillow from 0 and before 8.3.2 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the getrgb function.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-23437

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23437.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed8.3.2-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed8.3.2-1
debian debianbullseyefixed8.1.2+dfsg-0.3+deb11u3
debian debianforkyfixed8.3.2-1
debian debiansidfixed8.3.2-1
debian debiantrixiefixed8.3.2-1

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPIpillow>=5.2.0,<8.3.28.3.2
python PyPIpillow<9e08eb8f78fdfd2f476e1b20b7cf38683754866b||<8.3.29e08eb8f78fdfd2f476e1b20b7cf38683754866b

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.