CVE-2023-44271
An issue was discovered in Pillow before 10.0.0. It is a Denial of Service that uncontrollably allocates memory to process a given task,…
- Published
- Updated
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- mitre
Description
An issue was discovered in Pillow before 10.0.0. It is a Denial of Service that uncontrollably allocates memory to process a given task, potentially causing a service to crash by having it run out of memory. This occurs for truetype in ImageFont when textlength in an ImageDraw instance operates on a long text argument.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 36 days later
· 36 days later
Published
- 9 months later
· 9 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)
- 1.4% · top 28% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIpillowGHSA-8ghj-p4vj-mr35 (opens in a new tab)
References (5)
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/7244 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/1fe1bb49c452b0318cad12ea9d97c3bef188e9a7 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://devhub.checkmarx.com/cve-details/CVE-2023-44271/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FEDORA-2023-1a120657f9 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20240322 [SECURITY] [DLA 3768-1] pillow security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_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-8ghj-p4vj-mr35 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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