GHSA-pw3c-h7wp-cvhx BIT-pillow-2022-22815 CVE-2022-22815 PYSEC-2022-8
Improper Initialization in Pillow
Medium
PyPI
- Severity
- 0.0 / 10
- Medium · CVSS 4.0
- Exploit chance (EPSS)
- 2.77%
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 86.33% of scored vulnerabilities.
- Known exploited
- No
- Not in CISA's catalog
- Weakness
- CWE-665 Improper Initialization
- Fix
9.0.0- Upgrade pillow to this version or later
Description
Pillow is the friendly PIL (Python Imaging Library) fork. path_getbbox in path.c in Pillow before 9.0.0 improperly initializes ImagePath.Path.
Affected versions
PyPI
| Package | Vulnerable | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| pillow | < 9.0.0 |
9.0.0 |
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 → 9.0.0
- pip
pip install --upgrade "pillow>=9.0.0"- poetry
poetry add "pillow>=9.0.0"- uv
uv add "pillow>=9.0.0"
Severity breakdown
CVSS 4.0 0.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Confidentiality (vulnerable system)
- None
- Integrity (vulnerable system)
- Low
- Availability (vulnerable system)
- Low
- Confidentiality (subsequent systems)
- None
- Integrity (subsequent systems)
- None
- Availability (subsequent systems)
- None
CVSS 3.1 6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- Low
Weakness
CWE-665: Improper Initialization
The product does not initialize or incorrectly initializes a resource, which might leave the resource in an unexpected state when it is accessed or used.
How to prevent it
- Requirements: Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid. For example, in Java, if the programmer does not explicitly initialize a variable, then the code could produce a compile-time error (if the variable is local) or automatically initialize the variable to the default value for the variable's type. In Perl, if explicit initialization is not performed, then a default value of undef is assigned, which is interpreted as 0, false, or an equivalent value depending on the context in which the variable is accessed.
- Architecture and Design: Identify all variables and data stores that receive information from external sources, and apply input validation to make sure that they are only initialized to expected values.
- Implementation: Explicitly initialize all your variables and other data stores, either during declaration or just before the first usage.
- Implementation: Pay close attention to complex conditionals that affect initialization, since some conditions might not perform the initialization.
- Implementation: Avoid race conditions (CWE-362) during initialization routines.
- Build and Compilation: Run or compile your product with settings that generate warnings about uninitialized variables or data.
References
Advisories
Packages
Other links
- github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/5920
- github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/1e092419b6806495c683043ab3feb6ce264f3b9c
- github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/c48271ab354db49cdbd740bc45e13be4f0f7993c
- github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pillow/PYSEC-2022-8.yaml
- github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/blob/c5d9223a8b5e9295d15b5a9b1ef1dae44c8499f3/s…
- github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/blob/e8ab5640774716c5486d3cb05167f74f742ad6ef/C…
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00018.html
- pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/9.0.0.html
- 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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