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CVE-2020-5311
libImaging/SgiRleDecode.c in Pillow before 6.2.2 has an SGI buffer overflow.
Critical9.8EPSS 4.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
libImaging/SgiRleDecode.c in Pillow before 6.2.2 has an SGI buffer overflow.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 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 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.2% · top 9.0% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIpillowGHSA-r7rm-8j6h-r933 (opens in a new tab)
References (8)
- https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/6.2.2.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/a79b65c47c7dc6fe623aadf09aa6192fc54548f3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-df444e464e (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- USN-4272-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- RHSA-2020:0566 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-5cdbb19cca (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- DSA-4631 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2020:0580 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_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)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-r7rm-8j6h-r933 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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