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Vulnerability IntelligenceCVE-2021-25289

CVE-2021-25289

CRITICAL9.8

An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.1.1

Published Mar 19, 2021

Modified 2 years ago

Details

An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.1.1. TiffDecode has a heap-based buffer overflow when decoding crafted YCbCr files because of certain interpretation conflicts with LibTIFF in RGBA mode. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-35654.

References

https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/8.1.1.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-33

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-25289

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Exploitability

Attack Vector

NetworkAV:N

Attack Complexity

LowAC:L

Privileges Required

NonePR:N

User Interaction

NoneUI:N

Scope

Scope

UnchangedS:U

Impact

Confidentiality

HighC:H

Integrity

HighI:H

Availability

HighA:H

9.8/CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Ecosystems

Timeline

PublishedMar 19, 2021

ModifiedAug 3, 2024

CVE-2021-25289 | Mondoo Vulnerability Intelligence