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Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2020-10379 json

Buffer overflow in Pillow

published 2020-06-25 6 y ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo ago also BIT-pillow-2020-10379 , EUVD-2020-0131 , GHSA-8843-m7mw-mxqm , PYSEC-2020-78

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 66%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In Pillow before 7.1.0, there are two Buffer Overflows in libImaging/TiffDecode.c.

Patch / fix

  • pypi pillow 7.1.0
  • bitnami pillow 7.1.0
  • python pillow 7.1.0
  • pillow Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 7.2.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10379

  • pillow Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 7.0.0-4ubuntu0.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2020-10379

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2020-10379 updated cvss 7.5

python-pillow: two buffer overflows in libImaging/TiffDecode.c due to small buffers allocated in ImagingLibTiffDecode()

  • Red Hat Quay v3 quay/quay-rhel8 v3.4.0-51, quay/clair-rhel8 v3.4.0-25, quay/quay-builder-rhel8 v3.4.0-18, quay/quay-operator-bundle v3.4.0-89, quay/quay-operator-rhel8 v3.4.0-132, quay/quay-bridge-operator-bundle v3.4.0-3, +5 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2021:0420
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 python-imaging Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 python-imaging, python-imaging-tk, python-imaging-sane Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 python-pillow, python-pillow-qt, python-pillow-tk, python-pillow-sane Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 python-pillow, python3-pillow, python3-pillow-tk
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

1.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
GitHub 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
OSV 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi pillow
<7.1.0
7.1.0
bitnami pillow
<7.1.0
7.1.0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input

References

Sources

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