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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.1

CVE-2022-24303 json

Path traversal in Pillow

published 2022-03-11 4 y ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo ago also BIT-pillow-2022-24303 , EUVD-2022-0196 , GHSA-9j59-75qj-795w , PYSEC-2022-168

cvss
9.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.7%
EPSS 2.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Pillow before 9.0.1 allows attackers to delete files because spaces in temporary pathnames are mishandled.

Patch / fix

  • pypi pillow 9.0.1
  • bitnami pillow 9.0.1
  • python pillow 9.0.1
  • pillow Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 9.0.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-24303

  • pillow Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 7.0.0-4ubuntu0.7
  • pillow-python2 Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 6.2.1-3ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-24303

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • python-Pillow openSUSE Tumbleweed 11.1.0-1.1
  • python-Pillow openSUSE Tumbleweed 9.0.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:14645-1openSUSE-SU-2024:11814-1

  • py3-pillow Alpine 3.15 8.4.0-r3
  • py3-pillow Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +6 more 9.0.1-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2022-24303

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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-2022-24303 updated cvss 7.4

python-pillow: temporary directory with a space character allows removal of unrelated file after im.show() and related actions

  • Red Hat Quay 3 quay/quay-rhel8
    affected: no fix available
  • 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

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.69% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
GitHub 3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
OSV 3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi pillow
<9.0.1
9.0.1
bitnami pillow
<9.0.1
9.0.1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.