GHSA-8vj2-vxx3-667w BIT-pillow-2022-22817 CVE-2022-22817 PYSEC-2022-10
Arbitrary expression injection in Pillow
- Severity
- 0.0 / 10
- Critical · CVSS 4.0
- Exploit chance (EPSS)
- 3.58%
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 89.42% of scored vulnerabilities.
- Known exploited
- No
- Not in CISA's catalog
- Weakness
- CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')
- Fix
9.0.1- Upgrade pillow to this version or later
Description
PIL.ImageMath.eval in Pillow before 9.0.0 allows evaluation of arbitrary expressions, such as ones that use the Python exec method ImageMath.eval("exec(exit())").
While Pillow 9.0.0 restricted top-level builtins available to PIL.ImageMath.eval(), it did not prevent builtins available to lambda expressions. These are now also restricted in 9.0.1.
Affected versions
PyPI
How to fix
Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.
pillow PyPI → 9.0.1
- pip
pip install --upgrade "pillow>=9.0.1"- poetry
poetry add "pillow>=9.0.1"- uv
uv add "pillow>=9.0.1"
Severity breakdown
CVSS 4.0 0.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Confidentiality (vulnerable system)
- High
- Integrity (vulnerable system)
- High
- Availability (vulnerable system)
- High
- Confidentiality (subsequent systems)
- None
- Integrity (subsequent systems)
- None
- Availability (subsequent systems)
- None
CVSS 3.1 9.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
Weakness
CWE-74: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')
The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component.
How to prevent it
- Requirements: Programming languages and supporting technologies might be chosen which are not subject to these issues.
- Implementation: Utilize an appropriate mix of allowlist and denylist parsing to filter control-plane syntax from all input.
References
Advisories
Packages
Other links
- github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/8531b01d6cdf0b70f256f93092caa2a5d91afc11
- github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pillow/PYSEC-2022-10.yaml
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00018.html
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00021.html
- pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/9.0.0.html
- pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/9.0.1.html
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-10
- debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5053
Timeline
- Published
- Last updated by the source
- Latest EPSS score
Related advisories
| Advisory | Severity | Why it's related |
|---|---|---|
| PYSEC-2023-175 Pillow versions before v10.0.1 bundled libwebp binaries in wheels that are vulnerable to CVE-2023-5129 (previously CVE-2023-4863). | High Known exploited | Also affects pillow |
| GHSA-j7hp-h8jx-5ppr libwebp: OOB write in BuildHuffmanTable | High Known exploited | Also affects pillow |
| GHSA-78g4-xqwv-q3g8 Pillow: Bundled libopenjp2 2.5.4 in all wheels since 11.1.0 carries OSV-2025-219 heap-buffer-overflow write reachable from Image.open().load() | High | Also affects pillow |
| GHSA-654x-cwwv-5j9c Pillow: Arrow export leaks stale heap memory when PILLOW_ALIGNMENT > 1 | Medium | Also affects pillow |
| GHSA-xvh5-g6gv-559v Pillow: Memory disclosure and segfault in libtiff encoder via crafted TIFF tags | High | Also affects pillow |
| GHSA-g7cr-3p24-7wf7 Pillow: Heap buffer overflow writing JPEG comment after ICC profile fills buffer | High | Also affects pillow |
| GHSA-9v9v-9qvf-h2hj Pillow: Heap over-read in WMF/EMF rendering via 16-bit dimension truncation (Windows builds) | High | Also affects pillow |
| GHSA-g4qv-2jxx-769h Pillow: PNG eXIf chunk makes EXIF parsing run in quadratic time | Medium | Also affects pillow |
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