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CVE-2022-45198
Pillow before 9.2.0 performs Improper Handling of Highly Compressed GIF Data (Data Amplification).
High7.5EPSS 1.3%
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- mitre
Description
Pillow before 9.2.0 performs Improper Handling of Highly Compressed GIF Data (Data Amplification).
Timeline
Published
- 21 months later
· 21 months 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 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 29% 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: High 7.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIpillowGHSA-m2vv-5vj5-2hm7 (opens in a new tab)
References (6)
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/11918eac0628ec8ac0812670d9838361ead2d6a4 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/6402 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/855683 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/releases/tag/9.2.0 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/409.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- GLSA-202211-10 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_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-m2vv-5vj5-2hm7 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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